Tuscany Tank Dress

[idfelix2000]

This was a free pattern on interweave crochet but it is no longer there. Does anyone know were I can get it? Please...........

[magiccrochetfan]

This seems weird to me...if you look at post #5 here www.crochetville.org/forum/showthread.php?t=25254, apparently the pattern was never published in the magazine. (Since that issue had the Babette blanket pattern, you probably would have a heck of a time finding a copy anyhow. ) But seems odd to me, to feature it in the magazine but only have the pattern online...then not leave it online.

It seems to me at this point there wouldn't be any legitimate way to get the pattern, since it was only ever online and they've taken it down. But maybe they will put it back online in the future.

Did you try contacting Interweave? Or maybe if you can figure out how to contact the designer she could help.

[loremor]

I pm'd you

[AmyS]

As are many different companies right now as the internet changes so quickly, Interweave Press is in the process of figuring out all the legal details regarding copyright law and the rights to print a pattern in a magazine and the rights to make a pattern available digitally. (Remember the Hollywood Writer's strike over similar issues?)

Anyway, from what I understand, some of Interweave's older contracts didn't address the issue of digital rights to a pattern. When they ran out of space in a magazine for a planned pattern, they ended up making the pattern available on the website. In some cases, it wasn't realized that the contract they had with the designer didn't actually give them the rights to do so. As a result, Interweave had to pull some of the online patterns down until they were able to come to contractual agreements with the designers over the digital publishing rights.

Some designers will choose not to allow their pattern to be published digitally; others will choose to allow their pattern to be published digitally. But Interweave must still pay a designer who chooses to allow the pattern to be published digitally when that pattern is made available online. It's likely to take Interweave some time to determine which particular patterns they can pay for digital rights to at any given time.

I would suggest you contact both Interweave and the designer of that particular pattern to ask when/where the pattern may eventually be made available. I know some designers have chosen to make the patterns available on their own websites for sale, while others are choosing to have them made available online at Interweave (some for sale, some for free).

Please remember that designers are trying to make a living from their pattern designs. Do not think badly of those who have made the choice to sell their patterns instead of accepting the much smaller fee from Interweave for making them available online. (Some designers had plans to sell these patterns on their sites from the beginning once their contracts with Interweave for the magazine publishing rights expired.)

Also remember that once Interweave realized they did NOT own the digital publishing rights to these patterns, that they had no legal choice but to pull the patterns from their website. They did the only thing they could do.

[RachelG]

Thanks for your post, Amy, it helped me understand why some of the patterns disappeared.

Makes sense, now that I know. :)