Thanks annomalley, yes it was a Dalek. Sorry not a Dr Who fan just thought my son would like it. Anyway from reading the Ravelry post on the subject it looks like she is onto a winner. is in talk with the BBC and Dr Who people and may get to meet up with the who team. so she is probably thinking all this is worth it after all. Good luck to her, hope she will do well.
Actually under copyright laws if they fail to take action they risk losing the copyright.
so their hands are tied just as much as hers are.
Interesting. I recently had to look up some copyright info because I was making Tshirts for my son’s team and they wanted a specific character on their shirts who they also named their team after. So I wanted to make sure that wouldn’t get me in trouble. Well everything I looked up all only talked about making a profit so I wouldn’t have thought of it as an illegal thing had I made patterns for something famous if I were not making a profit from it but now I know better. Not like I am able to actually make my own patterns anyway. LOL
That is the primary reason behind it, but if you were to use something copyrighted, distribute it to someone else for no profit and they make a profit on it you’re as guilty as the one who makes the profit because you enabled them to do so.
You’ll see the same thing in the cake decorating world. (HUGE debates!) I am not allowed to make a Mickey Mouse cake for profit. Even if I own a pan shaped like Mickey, copy onto an edible image, freehand it, nothing. Disney owns that copyright. Wilton makes these pans in the shapes of characters and they say right on them- “For private home use only.” I can make a cake for my kids out of it, but I can’t make it and sell it unless I contact Disney and gain that right. (Yeah right!)
I don’t see what the problem understanding copyrights. It’s as simple as it sounds. Whoever OWNS the copyright, gets to determine who has the RIGHT to COPY it. Whether it be knitting, cakes, or pottery. If you try to copy something that someone else created, they have the right to be angry with you. Whoever owns those characters (Dr. Who) has the right to say that you can’t copy them in any form.
Kelly
I am a chapter coord. for Project Linus and we actually have the RIGHT to use the peanut character Linus. Our moto is if you BUY it, you can use it but you CANT REPRODUCE it. We are very careful with it so we do not loose the privelede of using him. Like I have a rubber stamp with him, and I can stamp him on anything I want, but I cant stamp him once and the xerox the image.
Yeah…ok…distribution…but as long as she wasn’t making money…
Ah…such a rule oriented world we live in…but I know they are there for good reason…