naelany | (no subject)

Is it just me? I'm trying to understand something. It's about copyright. I know that patterns are copyrighted. I can understand this, to a certain extent. My limit of understanding comes in with patterns such as this or more so this. It seems to me that these patterns are sooooo simple, so generic, that they can't possibly be so unique that they can really be copyrighted. These are tubes. Knit in the round. You use small cables or just plain knit/purl. This is stuff I'd have come up with myself, pattern wise. The only thing I needed the Voodoo pattern for was to figure out sizing and to re-learn buttonholes.
So explain to me, if you please, howcome I can't make stuff like this and sell them, without being in violation of a copyright?????? I'd really like to know.

Oh, speaking of patterns... I had a request for a pattern for the black hat I made. Since I made up the pattern for it, I couldn't give it to them. I'm hoping to try and make one though, but will need some help.

yarnpirate??????

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With something like Voodoo, i think you could get away with selling those, especially if you throw something in of your own (like a cable or something). You're right - they are incredibly basic. My thought is that the pattern is a great nudge and support for people who are nervous about trying out knitting in the round. But i'd think that if you sell armwarmers, nobody's going to slap you with a copyright infringement suit.

Writing a pattern isn't very hard, so if you work out the steps you took to make the hat, i can help you figure out how to translate that into knitting-ese.

I hope so lol. I kind of know what I did, but am not sure I can put it in writing. I was thinking maybe I could bring the hat next time we/I get your way and we could try figure it out together?

That's what I was thinking, too. It is impossible to really do something with things like those armwarmers (and for that matter, hats that are fairly basic...I'm not talking Hermione-type hats). Sweaters and the like, whole different ballgame, those I get as far as copyrights go. Simple stuff though....