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Originally Posted by Frogsongstudio
Lisa, if the author gives you permission to copy and sell the bead, no, it is not copyright infringement. Just because you buy a book does not mean you now own the copyright and the author has given up the copyright. Trust me, it's still copyrighted.
If you buy a book to learn how to draw, the goal is to teach you the tools and mechanics you need to draw. Not to copy the images in the book and sell them as your own. If the author does not give you that permission to copy their images and sell them as your own, you are indeed in violation of copyright. And if your patent attorney tells you any different he is sadly mistaken.
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Deb- are you an attorney? What I posted came from an attorney.
If you sell a tutorial on how to make a specific bead and the buyer/student then wants to sell the beads that result, you'd be hard pressed to be able to protect your
copy right because
you taught them how to copy it in exchange for money.
It seems that some artists think that their copy right continues to exist no matter what they do, including things contrary to the protection of it.
Lisa