On 8 Aug 2005 20:57:00 -0700, "Alexis" > wrote:

>Then Amy
>shared the pattern with someone from work who "wanted one for [her]
>sister down in the states" and Amy didn't have time to make one then.
>Two months later, Amy was at the Saturday Market (a big outdoor vendor
>market that takes place here every weekend during the summer) and there
>in a stall was this other woman, surrounded by a big selection of Amy's
>blanket sets. The woman had taken her pattern, duplicated it on her
>own, and was selling the blankets *and* a copy of the pattern. No, it
>wasn't the end of the world, but Amy was understandably upset by it.)

Amy owned the pattern. She also owned the copyright. I'd have gone
after the woman in a very serious manner.

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-denny-

"I don't like it when a whole state starts
acting like a marital aid."
"John R. Campbell" in a Usenet post.