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What Quilting's Legal Battles Can Teach Us About Copyright (Techdirt)
Last year Techdirt wrote about Leah Day, who was trying to introduce a free
model to quilting -- apparently a bold thing to do. Sadly, it seems that the
ownership mentality is nonetheless spreading in her field, as she reports in
this really excellent new blog post entitled "Copyright Terrorism": _
> Copyright issues seem to be cropping up with increasing frequency in the
quilting world and I for one would like to try to stem this flow, or at least
open your eyes, to the very real threat looming for our craft.
What is this threat? Where is it coming from?
It is coming from within our own ranks. Quilters with a certain penchant for
copyright and legal wrangling are turning our open, creative craft into a mine
field of rules, regulations, licensing, attribution, and copyright lockdown
that it's enough to make anyone set down their rotary cutter and sell their
sewing machine.
_ She then goes on to describe a recent case that perfectly summarizes the
growing insanity beginning to infect the world of quilting: _
> The basic story goes like this: Emily Cier wrote a book called Scrap
Republic for C&T Publishing. ...
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