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valesparza posted this lovely creation of the coffee date dress:
http://www.burdastyle.com/projects/the-coffee-date-dress-fort%C3%A9d-up
FNM commented:
“I love your dress, but I think that elainemay could sue you. You shouldn’t sell product that is not your pattern.”
What are the rules here? What is legal? Has this anything to do with “open source sewing” or does “open source sewing” simply mean, that I am allowed to modify an open source pattern and post the changes?
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May 20, 2010, 08.13 PMby mitmit
That’s a very good question, that I would like to know the answer to as well :-)
May 20, 2010, 08.34 PMby daiyami
ElaineMay does not say, so I would ask her directly: http://selfishseamstress.wordpress.com/downloads/ although “for your own personal use” might be meant to preclude selling.
I don’t know what open source sewing means, really, but I would expect that the same sort of Creative Commons licenses could apply to patterns as to pictures, eg, making a dress based on the pattern would be a derivative work: http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/ And so people could pick a license that allowed that or didn’t allow it. BurdaStyle has specifically allowed it, of course. But I would think that the rules are set by the original creator, that it’s not necessarily consistent.
May 20, 2010, 08.54 PMby wackyblonde
As far as I understand all of the patterns are open source. Unless the creator has stated otherwise. The new uploads by BurdaStyle magazine are NOT open source. Meaning you cannot mass produce these items for sale.
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May 20, 2010, 10.01 PMby katexxxxxx
It is also generally regarded as very bad form to manufacture or sell things made with someone else’s pattern unless they designed it for you to use and they also profit from your sale.
May 23, 2010, 08.08 PMby zora
With the exception of the new Burdastyle magazine patterns, every pattern was posted under the open source policy. You can read up on it here: http://www.burdastyle.com/discussions/getting-started/topics/what-is-open-source-sewing As you can see, the open source license allows everyone to change the patterns and to sell garments made with the patterns – that’s what open source is all about.