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@2012kazzza wrote:

I'm not the seller.. just wanting to know if it's ok for someone to sell things on ebay that are offered for FREE online with the above copywrite notation.

 

Thanks

K

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It's Drops Design that needs to contacted, they can decide what to do from there (eg send the seller a DCMA takedown notice, and / or report to eBay as the copyright holder, and / or seek compensation, royalties etc from the seller). 

Thanks I will try and contact them.

My pet peeve. It isn't hers to sell and she has scanned it and sold 90 of them already.

 

Ebay and Etsy are rife with this. I contact the copyright holders whenever I see it, although I think that I have only succeeded in getting one taken down.

 

I had a woman from the UK selling one of my free patterns with my name on it on Ebay Uk. Ebay did take it down, but only I had to jump through many hoops to prove it was mine.

There is a group from a community web site that are aware of FREE patterns being SOLD by a member and we are going to work very hard to have her shut down... this person works from the UK..

 

 

Sorry !! what is  DCMA takedown notice and how can i ask the seller to do this when i have been blocked by them !

 

FYI :- new item are still being added that contain Copyright.. it is so unfair that someone is making a profit for a FREE item, and a so called "photocopy service"

FYI -DMCA -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act

 

It's Drops Design who must contact seller with the DCMA.  You should notify them,

not contact the seller yourself.

How many years does copyright last for on, for example, a published craft pattern book?

All I know is what I read here.  The Drops design says, in part

 

© 1982-2014 DROPS Design A/S. We reserve all rights. This document, including all its sub-sections, has copyrights. This is for all of you with knitting as a hobby and for you who run a yarn store. Either way, the DROPS pattern database is at your free disposal. As a store you are welcome to use the DROPS pattern database to promote the sale of your assortment. Print out any pattern you may want, make as many copies as desired. The only thing we ask is that you don't make any changes / additions to the original printed document... and that the patterns according to the DROPS philosophy are given out to the consumers for free.

 

From here:  http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/pattern.php?id=3954&lang=en

I think from memory it's 70 years, even if the holder dies.

A published craft pattern book (sold in shops). copyright would expire in 25 years?
I have noticed photo-copied "vintage" craft patterns for sale.

"The duration of copyright protection for sound recordings made after 1954 and films (made after 1 May 1969) is generally 70 years from the end of the year of first publication. If the film or sound recording is unpublished, the protection period is indefinite until it is published.

The duration of copyright in radio and television broadcasts is 50 years from the making of the broadcast.

Copyright in the published editions of works lasts for 25 years from the year of first publication of the edition."