For once no cross stitch and copyright for fabric???

[crafts4others]

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Another long video. Where I talk about fabric and books. Also recent
discovery Copyright for fabric?? I can understand patterns but had never
previously really heard anything about fabric besides Disney.

Comments

[clumsy_chord]

Lots of new crafty goodness, eh?

I don't know what I think about that copyright stuff on fabric. I've seen it here and there when I've bought stuff, though not that often.

[crafts4others]

Yea I don't know either, with a pattern someone could make the exact same thing so I understand that (although it is a little confusing to know what some of the older patterns are in public domain and others aren't). With fabric of course no one is going to be making their own at home (the only except I guess maybe batiks or hand dyes someone could try, not sure if they would get anywhere though).

[jewells68]

Anything using licensed characters or trademarks is copyrighted.. project runway for instance. Scenes from Wizard of Oz, or I have some Gone with the Wind Fabric. I'm sure there are many more examples... besides, the fabrics are designed by artists, even just a paisley or stripe sequence, and I'm sure they want to protect their designs as much as pattern designers do.

[thetrace360]

These days they have websites like Spoonflower that allow you to design your own fabrics. You just upload photos and they let you make it into fabric so you can actually make your own fabric now. Also with sites like etsy people sell things they make and I guess certain people don't want anyone making money from their fabric designs

[aalia7]

Pretty fabric choices...I love gingham and I think it's always appropriate for baby things.

Copyright law is getting more complicated by the minute, but I think auctioning for charity would qualify as "noncommercial" use.

[crafts4others]

I think I may end of doing the star pattern, not sure what color though I should have for the background.