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Posted by Ericka Kammerer on July 21, 2007, 1:27 am
Mirjam Bruck-Cohen wrote:
> I feel i am lucky that i can embroider my own personal ideas and
> images and don`t have the Copyright `problems` ... i have a colleague
> who says that if one can`t design their own best solution is to buy a
> ready printed canvass , because one can`t copy that !!!
> But than i told her that i vaguely remember somebody here , once
> commented one can`t change the Stitching instructions ? i am not sure
> when and who wrote that at the time ??? [ by changing i mean adding
> beads for the eyes etc,,,, ]
I think that by changing these sorts of things, at some
point you cross from making a copy to making a derivative work.
Copyright owners get to say what they will and will not accept
in terms of making copies, making derivatives, and publicly
displaying them. Minor changes would likely still be considered
making a copy, which is what you're being granted a license to
do when you purchase a chart. Major changes (like making a quilt
instead of a cross stitched piece) would be making a derivative,
and could be subject to different restrictions if that's what
the copyright owner chose to do. Where the line between copy
and derivative is is a judgment call.
Best wishes,
Ericka
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