[BasketballJones]

What about snowangels make them snow devils.

Sorry to spoil the fun
I knew the answer to this but I showed this to an attorney friend (tells you the trouble I get into with lawyers as friends). Most of the responses are correct. The answer is simple. A blank is a pattern, and that is what is copyright protected. What you do with it is insignificant aside from reproducing it as a blank from another duplicating machine (whoever wrote that is correct). The revenue is the pattern itself not the product. If someone duplicated a blank through visualization and without the manual assistance of that blank, its not a violation as, it could be argued that the individual used their own personal skills to make a re-creation. Another point to be argued would be a person's skilled ability/talent The law was written by lawyers therefore like all laws there are holes in it.

If you took a thousand copies of a pattern and gave them away without the authors permission, you violated the copyright law. Virtually nothing would happen to you it's like chasing water ---- (which is a bad analogy). If you sold them for a buck you still broke the law but it's a thousand bucks. Five bucks apiece, you attracted more interest. The simple point is the monetary value involved and the power behind the violated person is what makes a case. People attempt to copyright everything from Santas, Easter Bunnys, to Jesus, but it is the form of which is not in the public domain that is the issue.

In organizations or associations like this there is something more powerful than a copyright law and that is etiquette and credibility. Though not required, the simple and most credible thing to do is credit the pattern designer. That's all I can remember as I tuned out somewhere when I began remembering why I didn't want to go to law school, which was stupid and another story.