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FREE AND PURCHASED PATTERNS YOU RECEIVE FROM ME ARE COPYRIGHTED AND ARE NOT TO BE DISTRIBUTED, SHARED, EMAILED, PHOTO TRANSFERED, OR SOLD IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM. Please respect my copyright, as I do not grant permission for any kind of distribution. Violating a copyright is a crime.  And about the "fair use quote" that many sharers use - thinking it gives them the right to share patterns, is a FALSE statement. It has been taken out of context AND it was also rewritten by someone who cleverly made it look real. If someone told you that it was okay to steal, would you believe them? What if they created a sign that looked legitimate.. Would you believe them then? This is exactly what's happened with the "disclaimer" that many people hide behind. It is not wise to use any other statement other than the original copyright law from the government itself. http://www.copyright.gov/ Please read it and understand that pattern sharing IS breaking the law! Think that link is too much to read? Here is some useful information I obtained from an Annies Attic Forum that sums it up: Each of a copyright holder's publications or patterns, are the property of that copyright holder and are protected under the Copyright Law of the United States. Under the Copyright Law, only the owner of a copyrighted publication or pattern may copy and distribute these materials. This law is intended to protect the investment (including time and money) of the copyright owner. Please be aware that most patterns are not public domain. A work created after 1978 is automatically protected from the moment of creation until the creator's death plus 70 years. For works made for hire, the copyright extends 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter. Works created before 1978 have automatically been brought under the statute and are given the same treatment. Without a clear knowledge of copyright status, please do not suggest copying a pattern and distributing it - that is copyright infringement. If a scan or copy of a publication is received, then sent onward to another person or posted to the Internet, it is being illegally copied and distributed. If copyrighted materials are transferred from one computer to another via e-mail, CD, floppy, peer-to-peer software, shared server, etc, then they are illegally copied and distributed. Say you purchase a pattern book published by Annie's Attic, Your neighbor likes the design and asks to borrow it. When loaning the pattern book to your neighbor, if you hand them the original pattern book it falls within fair use laws and there is no issue. You transferred ownership of the original pattern book to your neighbor. The physical pattern book is your property and can be disposed of as you wish either as a loan, sold on eBay, sold at a yard sale, presented as a gift or shredded. If, however, you make a copy in any way (this includes scans, photo copies or handwritten copies) and pass those copies to your neighbor, you are infringing on the legal copyright of the publisher by distributing copies. The publisher is the only one allowed to copy and distribute the pattern book, because they own the legal copyright to the intellectual property contained therein. They paid the designer, layout artist and photographer. They paid for printing the publication, marketing, storage and wholesale distribution of the publication. The idea, the design, the content is their intellectual property. Allowing the publication to go out of print in no way lessens the legality of the copyright. If you have any further questions on copyright, please see the information at the United States Copyright Office at http://www.copyright.gov/   |
