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Oh, this is quite a thread! I can knit socks, Helen,Zocks!All my friends were punished with my socks once. And mice! Lots and lots of Mize!I'm sure there is a copyright on patterns, meaning you can copy them but not publish them.Copies,no problem.

Shouldn't that word be publishright then?


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Yes, I have a mental disorder with copy-right since it is the denial of the right to copy - it's the anticopy-unright - the non-author does not have the right to copy or the author has the right to anticopying protection. (It also seems more to do with writing than copying to me.) Copyright also gives rise to copyleft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

I have a similar problem with perforate. It seems more important that the tiny holes in the paper are made ahead of time (pre-forate) than that the holes go thorough (per-forate), esp considering they often don't go through (or you'd need a microscope to prove it.)

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Y'all people are very strange.

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No bran shea, you can't photo copy (not with out permission!)
well you can copy for yourself (i often do, so i don't have to carry a whole book around with me, or rip the pages out of the book)

but its not generally acceptable to photo copy (for distribution) a pattern. when you buy a pattern (in a book, in a store, as a pdf download..it's for your personal use. in most cases, you can't donate to a charity auction. (you can donate to charity and you can give away the finished object, but you can't give the FO to a charity to auction off (with out permission)

Libraries (well libraries in US) have library edition of books--these are more expensive than home editions. it is recognized that library edition of a pattern book might have patterns photocopied --(and it's ok to photocopy a reasonable amount of material.. (10% or so) of a library book for personal use..

Just as we have language experts here (and scholars who know can translate latin, german, etc, there are some lawyers who specialize in copyright law who are also knitters.. and there are knitting blog and knitting BB that have whole threads devoted to the details of copyright law (and what is copyrightable (or what is uncopyrightable!)

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I'm a very unobsessed knitter Helen and sometimes I do uncopyrightable things. I've copied the mouse to five friends.I hope the lawyers won't read this.
Any other fairly common word that equals copy/paste: uncopyrightable?

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Originally Posted By: BranShea
Any other fairly common word that equals copy/paste: uncopyrightable?

Well, BranShea, in the high circles I travel in the term jungarctosphile is fairly common.

jung-arctos-phile:

jung = Carl Jung
arctos = bear
phile = friend of

jungarctosphile:
Carl Jung's theory that the spontaneous fondness that all of mankind feels towards teddy bears can be found deep within in our collective psyche. (also see WWFTD for arctophile)

(copyrighted 10-10-2007 all rights reserved)




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What's a tingled ?

Edit: see, *I won't pounce upon poor, benited Myridon; but I will accost tsuwm!

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Smatter Milo, lose that © already?

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Originally Posted By: Jackie
What's a tingled ?

Edit: see, *I won't pounce upon poor, benited Myridon; but I will accost tsuwm!


you frowzy-tingled-humpback

<sigh>
it's the past participle (read adjective) of the verb tingle.

-joe (thou misbegotten sheep-biting moldwarp!) friday

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! yourself! By putting frowzy-tingled, you are indicating (by MY rules) that frowzy modifies tingled; so I just wondered what it was, is all. [envisioning some cetacean version of a coxcomb e]

Edit: ooh, I just lurve a good argument!

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