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 Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:35 am
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:37 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:53 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:08 pm
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I just looked up the company in a copyright database and found out that there are only 3 copyrighted works by that company (American Thread Co.):
1. Registration Number: TX-161-059
Title: Suisse, the beautiful thread].
Imprint: Stamford, Conn. : American Thread, c1978.
Description: Folder.
Claimant: acThe American Thread Company
Created: 1978
Published: 30Nov78
Registered: 13Dec78
Special Codes: 1/B/D
2. Registration Number: TX-261-871
Title: Fun-fast-fancy stitchery / from American Thread.
Imprint: Stamford, Conn. : American Thread, c1978.
Description: Folder.
Claimant: acThe American Thread Company
Created: 1978
Published: 15Jan79
Registered: 22Mar79
Special Codes: 1/B
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Documents Database (PTY1/ Search)
Search For: AMERICAN THREAD COMPANY
Item 1 of 1
Item 1 OF 1 V2782 P195 THRU 199 (COHD)
Date Recorded: 2Jul92
Date Executed: 13Feb92; date of cert.: 14May92
Party 1: American Thread Company.
Party 2: Coats American, Inc.
Note: Fun, fast, fancy stitchery & 10 other titles. Certificate of amendment
to the certificate of incorporation of the American Thread Company.
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I have seen some information to suggest that even if a work was never formally copyrighted but was merely printed, that it is copyrighted! ninja
From everything I've been able to find out about the books which I bought second hand on ebay, these little pattern pamphlet books were never formally copyrighted, but ...
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:37 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:41 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:20 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:48 am
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:53 pm
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DecemberFlower Copyright law is surprisingly extensive, especially after DMCA. That's too bad that you probably can't share them. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with it, especially if the patterns are out of print.
Yeah, part of me actually feels the same way - they're not in print anymore, there's no copyright on them ... and I wouldn't be using them to make money, just sharing them with other people, so it doesn't seem wrong to me. However, part of me won't feel right about posting them unless I can find out for sure if it's okay. I spent hours yesterday looking for information about the company, their patterns, etc. I couldn't even find a web site for the company! I did finally find out that the American Thread Company has a plant in Asheville, North Carolina, USA, but that's all I was able to find out about the current state of the company. All the other information I found out about them was about all of these times that they moved locations and closed down plants. I can't believe they don't have a website ... By now, I am so pissed with this company for not having a website stare (How silly and petty of me to feel that way. redface )
I'm gonna try to look around more on the net to see if I can find some contact info for the company - maybe they have a customer service phone number I could call to ask about the patterns. They must have a website! They must! (I've looked and looked and haven't found one so far.) Everyone and their mother has a website in this day and age ...
As for the patterns, it seems to me that the patterns were created mainly for the purpose of promoting their yarn (all of the patterns list their company's yarns in the materials lists.)
Anyway, I haven't given up entirely on the idea of posting them - I just want to find out for sure if it's okay. (I don't want to do anything wrong - this is such a moral and legal gray area though!) |
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:03 pm
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