Obtaining Copyrights

[Lavelle26]

I have been designing some patterns of my own lately and am having a website built so I can start selling patterns. I have a few questions about the copyrights on them.
I have heard that I don't "need" a copyright because anything that I write or make is automatically copyrighted but since I am selling stuff for profit, it would benefit me to obtain copyrights incase of infringement. I would have better luck with prosecuting or something like that.

How do I obtain this copyright?

Is there a set in stone wording that needs to be written on my patterns and website or do I just make it up how I want it to be?

Those are the only questions I can think of for now. I will be back with more I am sure.

[JCB]

Here is a page I was just looking at earlier.. it says for knitters but the info is the same. Hope some of the info is useful:
http://www.geocities.com/jbtocker/copyright/index.html

Joan

[Pam Gillette]

I also got alot of good reading on this site

http://www.copyright.gov/

[Lavelle26]

Thank you so much. That really helps. I will bookmark these for future reference.

[Samio]

I was of the understanding that there was not to be any discussion on Copyrights - Not sure - maybe check with the Mods or Admin

[Lavelle26]

I was of the understanding that there was not to be any discussion on Copyrights - Not sure - maybe check with the Mods or Admin


Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know this. I was told that crochetville was the place to come to ask all these types of questions so that was why I joined. I am new to this so I didn't know. I am sorry if I have broken any rules. It was not my intention.

[donnalynn2]

Well, I'm not a moderator but personally I think it was ok for her to ask "where to get copyright info" she wasn't asking how to disect it and such. I think the problems were coming in where we were all getting off into tangents about why this is copyright infringement and this isn't and so on and so forth. If this were my forum it could put me in trouble if I let people uneducated about the matter talked about the copyright laws. IMO I think they banned this subject so that there wasn't a grey area. If you have a question as to what constitutes copyright infringement ask a lawyer. I think that the links given here were great and will be useful for anyone who designs patterns.

[goldi316]

Donnalynn is correct. We simply could not have constant circular arguments over the matter of what constitutes copyright violations and amateur attempts at law interpretation which serves no one, that is what had been happening, and would continue to happen were we to allow it. Since there is no final, definitive answer available to us as NON-lawyers, we asked everyone to stop discussing it as it kept degenerating into an argumentative state. But requests such as yours, Anna, are perfectly fine and there's no need for apologies. Those links are helpful and I'm saving them myself!

[Lavelle26]

Thank you Donnalynn2 and Goldi. I appreciate that. I am new to this and just trying to get as much info as possible because I want to do things the right way.

[paah-paah]

thank-you for asking the question I wanted to ask. I intend to check out the links supplied and see if it will help me also.


http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n25/paah-paah/

[nightowl]

As this older thread has been revived, I just wanted to point out that the forum guidelines have been revised and there is now no ban on discussing copyright issues. See Amy's (Yarnaholic's) post of June 27 2006 here (http://www.crochetville.org/forum/showthread.php?p=401963#post401963).

Smiles,