{"id":602,"date":"2005-07-28T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2005-07-28T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T02:32:00","slug":"copyright-dustup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"Copyright dustup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crossposted to knitting<\/a> and my journal.<\/p>\n

I was at my local yarn store (LYS) getting another set of DPNs. I’m halfway through a sock and can only find three needles, the ones that the sock is on, which means I’m kind of a standstill until I either find another needle somewhere in the pile of crap in my den or get new ones. I opted for ‘get new ones.’ (By the way, thanks again, Secret Pal, I’m having fun with it!)<\/p>\n

Well, of course I can’t go to a LYS without looking at all their yarn and patterns. I was in the pattern room, poking around, when a 20-something woman came in and opened up Last Minute Knited Gifts to the leg warmer pattern. After a minute, she got out a little notepad and started writing down stuff. I watched her for a minute, then spoke up.<\/p>\n

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Me:<\/b> “Are you copying down that pattern?”
\nHer:<\/b> “Yes.”
\nMe:<\/b> “That’s a substantial copyright violation.”
\nHer: <\/b> *stare*
\nI shrugged and met her gaze. Kind of a “Well, it is, so there you have it.”
\nFrom here on, imagine her words in an irritated, defensive and snotty tone, and mine in an unconcerned, bland tone. I can’t really convey her “you’re crazy, lady” tone through text.
\nHer: <\/b> “Well, I’m just copying down the yarn info.”
\nMe: <\/b> “Ah, well that’s okay.”
\nHer:<\/b> “And needle size.”
\nMe: <\/b>“Uh-huh.”
\nHer: <\/b> “I mean, it’s just a knitted tube, it’s not that hard.”
\nMe: <\/b>“I agree.”
\nHer, closing the book: <\/b> “So that’s all. No reason for you to get all upset or anything.”
\nMe: <\/b> “Okay.”<\/p>\n

She checked out just ahead of me, and did in fact purchase yarn for the project. I’m not sure whether she purchased the book or not. You know, maybe she really was just writing down the yarn requirements, in which case I definitely apologize. But if that were the case, why bother with the notepad? Why not just carry the book around, or ask the staff and show them the book? And why get so defensive?<\/p>\n

I tend to believe that she was copying down the pattern, as she initially said. It’s odd, because it really is super-simple. Cast on X number of stitches, knit in rib for X inches, cast off in pattern. If she’d just been copying down yarn requirements, it would have been very easy to shrug the whole thing off. Yeah, I’m sure I came off as super-knitting-bitch, and I’m sure she felt like, “who died and made you the copyright fairy?”. But I knit for money, and I’d hate for someone to rip off one of my patterns. Stealing from a fellow knitter or designer makes it that much less likely that they’ll be able to afford to put out quality patterns in the future. It’s a matter of courtesy and of self-preservation for our craft.<\/p>\n

So for those who asked on my personal journal, that’s the little local yarn store dustup I mentioned. I may have been totally in the wrong – but that’s never stopped me from opening my big yap before. And it won’t again. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crossposted to knitting and my journal. I was at my local yarn store (LYS) getting another set of DPNs. I’m halfway through a sock and can only find three needles, the ones that the sock is on, which means I’m kind of a standstill until I either find another needle somewhere in the pile of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}