Re: Copyright Question

Our library has a photocopier and has no restrictions on what you can copy. (Providing you pay for it, of course!) There`s absolutely nothing to stop you photocopying a chart.

Pat P

That's right, except for a guilty conscience and lack of ethics.

The libraries I use do have big signs on the photocopiers about not copying copyrighted material.

Nancy Sue, Professional Project Starter

Thank you Ericka , i hoped that you will write this all in a clear language , I also hope you noted my bit cynical begining , of course i know that USA , just as other countries has to deal with many levels and different opions of people ... As a person who never stole any idea , but have had ideas and patterns stolen from i am very much aware of what is going on etc,,, And i believe that the more Knowledgeable people like you , write and talk about it in the clear way you do , hopefully more people will UNDERSTAND and stop what they do ,,, Yes many people here complain about it, but maybe do it themselves [at least in parts].Thank you for your wonderful texts. mirjam

When i see a book with a pattern , i look at the picture and how it was made, as a course to understand how one can build forms shapes etc...For this i only need a bit of time for looking . I learned how to shape rounds, how to shade bushes , how to use colors to make the sky look like a sky . Same way as i took hundreds of Sun rise photos to understand how Light shows or can be portrayed with threads. .. Than i use[d] all this applied knowledge and make my own work. mirjam

That`s a laugh for a start since I imagine that 99% of the contents of most libraries consists of copyrighted material!

If you were lacking in ethics, would you even HAVE a guilty concience??? LOL!

Pat P

Just my not particularly well-informed opinion, but the way I figure it... if it's in the library... and I can't acquire the book through other means within reason (meaning that I've made a reasonable search of both offline and online sources including used-book dealers and other stitchers)... then the chart I want to stitch falls into the same category as that genealogical information my niece wants... and the Fair Use clause allows me to make that one working copy.

Is this magazine still in print??

This is for your own personal use right. I not sure I would like the police searching my home for copyright rule breaking. Visions of the Storm troopers appears.

It like with programs you buy, copy it to save the original. Then using it for only personal use, it not a problem. But out right saying something someone else created is yours is wrong.