COFFEE - COPYRIGHT - REMEMBERINGS

Please be seated.

As I was having coffee this morning with an executive from the national office of copyright at the Library of Congress, I asked her about copyright and patterns and posting on the Internet. She told me that as long as credit to the author or designer or inventor is given, and as long as you do not use the material to make money or profit from it financially in any way, then there is no reason why patterns can not be posted to the Internet.Any group can make any internal laws and/or rules they wish. This doesn't mean that the US Government or any of its offices or divisions backs those laws or rules. No one should try to pass off the work of another as his or her own. No one should ever make money by using the works of another unless they have written permission. Verbal permission is OK but doesn't stand up well in the courtroom.

Just remember:
Give Credit where credit is do.
Don't use parts or bits or pieces.
Don't make any money.

There are many patterns that have become part of what is called public domain. There are all kinds of rumors running around about that status as well. Let me remind you of something. Just because you can command yarn and needles as well as Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composes and conducts music, that doesn't mean you are an expert on copyright laws or rules.

There are many people on the Internet that have no control over their own lives or the lives of others and thus are frustrated. So they bring all that frustration to the Internet and push around the minds of anyone who'll allow them to do so.

Remember: The more postings you see from me here, the less life I am living.

To some people, life is what gets in the way of their Internet persona. I have some Grandsons who do not know much in the computer world beyond the turn on button and where the games are. They have even become far too busy even for the games. They are young and they are living. Not surfing the web.

Remember: Everything is good, until excess. Then it becomes poison.

Thank you. You're dismissed.
I forgot the number of this sermon/lesson. Who cares?

Doug The1Knit1Wit

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