I feel i am lucky that i can embroider my own personal ideas and images and don`t have the Copyright `problems` ... i have a colleague who says that if one can`t design their own best solution is to buy a ready printed canvass , because one can`t copy that !!! But than i told her that i vaguely remember somebody here , once commented one can`t change the Stitching instructions ? i am not sure when and who wrote that at the time ??? [ by changing i mean adding beads for the eyes etc,,,, ] Well i feel i have learned quite some new things in this discussions ,,, thanks to all who participated ,,, mirjam
private personal embroideries
Jul 21, 2007
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I think that by changing these sorts of things, at some point you cross from making a copy to making a derivative work. Copyright owners get to say what they will and will not accept in terms of making copies, making derivatives, and publicly displaying them. Minor changes would likely still be considered making a copy, which is what you're being granted a license to do when you purchase a chart. Major changes (like making a quilt instead of a cross stitched piece) would be making a derivative, and could be subject to different restrictions if that's what the copyright owner chose to do. Where the line between copy and derivative is is a judgment call.
Best wishes, Ericka
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