DPuppets said:
Question for the board! If a person sells their pattern and as a part of you buying that it states that this is for personal use only. Does that give you the right to build a puppet from that patteren and sell on your website? Or is it ok to buy a puppet from a building take it apart and build one and sell it? Just curious what you all think.
i would not think so, in purchasing the item you have agreed to thier terms and conditions , if they say it is for personel use only, then that is what you are bound to do, as for reverse engineering a puppet from some one , sounds an awful lot like stealing to me,
however there is nothing wrong with using a pattern as a tool to create your own puppet., but if you want to avoid legal problems, then you would need to suffiently change the pattern to have it be your own thing, and by that i mean not just making it bigger or smaller, but acually developing your own look.
but im not a lawer so dont qoute me on that, just my own thoughts on that issue