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Howdy All. I want to remind everybody not to distribute patterns or designs that they haven’t personally designed themselves. I was contacted by a copyright owner about a design in our Pattern Library. I was given a legal notice and asked to remove the pattern from SSV. The original design was altered to make it cuttable on a scroll saw. Simply altering an existing design so it’s cuttable is not sufficient to call it your own. This is considered derivative work and still violates copyright laws. You pretty much have to alter the design so much that it is unrecognizable from the original. Here are some guidelines as to what is acceptable or what is not. With your cooperation, we can keep the lawyers off our lawn and keep the lights on at SSV.
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Over the last few weeks, I had to remove several patterns and threads because copyrighted patterns were posted. Protecting copyrights of our fellow artists (no mattter the medium) is a huge priority at SSV. Please only post patterns you have personally designed yourself using copyright free source materials. I know it's tempting to reach into your pattern collection to help out a fellow scroller who's looking for something in particular. But pattern designers work hard on these patterns and it's not right to distribute their patterns without their knowledge or permission. There are some designers that make a living designing and selling their patterns. So when you share their pattern, they lost a sale. The best way to share someone else's pattern is to simply link them to where the requester can download or purchase it for themselves. I'd also like to point out that posting copyrighted material can potentially open SSV and the poster to legal trouble. I have a general rule about keeping the lawyers off my lawn. You can find more information on copyrights in the SSV User Guidelines. You may also want to review the copyright section of the Pattern Request Forum Rules, which covers which pattern requests are OK to fulfill. Thanks for your cooperation. And now back to your regularly scheduled program.
