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GRRR My Star Wars craft page is down Leah 02-21-2008
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Posted by Samantha Hill - take out TRASH on February 21, 2008, 7:20 pm
myswendy wrote:
> Oh I'm so sorry that has happened! I mean, it's one thing to use the
> pattern to make personal gifts but quite another to sell them for
> profit when that has been explicitly prohibited by the author.

Not really, unless the copyright statement specifically allows this, and
I can't imagine that the Star Wars people have included "okay for
personal use only" statements in their copyrights.

Posted by Y? on February 21, 2008, 2:11 pm
I had exactly this with my westie coat patterns Leah, I reported the sale
of my patterns which included photo's of the coats with my dogs in my home
modelling them, and the sellers pages were removed immediately. Hope this
is resolved for you soon
higz Cher


> I'm angry and disappointed, and my Star Wars knit and crochet chart
> page is down for the time being.
>
> Why? Someone didn't honor the injunction that they were for personal
> use only and not to be used to make items for sale and have used not
> 1, but 2 of my charts to make a scarf they are now trying to sell on
> Ebay.
>
> A friend reported them, since I don't have an Ebay account, but for
> now, my page is down until this is taken care of.
>
> Sheesh, you try and do something nice, and some dweeb is always going
> to try and make money off your work, aren't they? I wanted to keep
> these free, but maybe, since this is the second time in a few months
> someone has wanted to try and sell them (the first being a publisher
> who wanted me to enter a contest in which the "winners" would give up
> their copyright so these people could put their charts in a book and
> SELL them to make money for themselves), just maybe I should jump on
> the greed train and charge for them. <SIGH>.
>
> Leah



Posted by on February 21, 2008, 4:03 pm
> I'm angry and disappointed, and my Star Wars knit and crochet chart
> page is down for the time being. =A0
>
> Why? =A0Someone didn't honor the injunction that they were for personal
> use only and not to be used to make items for sale and have used not
> 1, but 2 of my charts to make a scarf they are now trying to sell on
> Ebay. =A0
>
> A friend reported them, since I don't have an Ebay account, but for
> now, my page is down until this is taken care of. =A0
>
> Sheesh, you try and do something nice, and some dweeb is always going
> to try and make money off your work, aren't they? =A0I wanted to keep
> these free, but maybe, since this is the second time in a few months
> someone has wanted to try and sell them (the first being a publisher
> who wanted me to enter a contest in which the "winners" would give up
> their copyright so these people could put their charts in a book and
> SELL them to make money for themselves), just maybe I should jump on
> the greed train and charge for them. =A0<SIGH>. =A0
>
> Leah =A0

I am sorry somebody ABUSED your pattern ,
mirjam

Posted by Bernadette on February 21, 2008, 4:33 pm
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:30:49 -0700, Leah wrote:

> I'm angry and disappointed, and my Star Wars knit and crochet chart page
> is down for the time being.
>
> Why? Someone didn't honor the injunction that they were for personal use
> only and not to be used to make items for sale and have used not 1, but 2
> of my charts to make a scarf they are now trying to sell on Ebay.
>
> A friend reported them, since I don't have an Ebay account, but for now,
> my page is down until this is taken care of.
>
> Sheesh, you try and do something nice, and some dweeb is always going to
> try and make money off your work, aren't they? I wanted to keep these
> free, but maybe, since this is the second time in a few months someone has
> wanted to try and sell them (the first being a publisher who wanted me to
> enter a contest in which the "winners" would give up their copyright so
> these people could put their charts in a book and SELL them to make money
> for themselves), just maybe I should jump on the greed train and charge
> for them. <SIGH>.
>
> Leah

That is a cheek Leah but it is a compliment in another way as someone
thinks your design is worth stealing! I'm sorry it has happened though.

--
Blessed are the cracked for they let in the light

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