Copyright Your Quilt Design
Quilting is a relaxing hobby, a professional avocation and occasionally a cotton-based addiction.
It’s an enourmous amount of work and talent. It’s great to display these at shows.
It’s infuriating to see an unauthorized copy of your hard work and design sensibilty at a show.
Now, for the record, this has never happened to me.
I have had the experience of fiddling for hours with triangles and squares to come up with a new design, only for a more knowledgeable friend to tell me, “Oh, that’s a lovely Dove at the Window”. Sigh.
But it does happen that new patch designs are fashioned.
Newly designed quilts are copyrighted by those who designed them, even if there’s no copyright symbol attached. Yep, that’s right, every published pattern for a quilt “belongs” to someone. It’s rude, as well as actionable , to interfere with that right without the consent of the copyright holder.
So what is fair game and what requires a written permission? See the excellent link below for more information.
Some guidelines:
By definition, all works are copyrighted by the creator.
It requires the creator’s consent to use or reproduce the item.
Luckily, most quilters and web sites are generous with their designs, as long as they are for personal use and due credit is given. For more detail on this, or how to register a copyright, see the link below.
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