Copyright question, eBay related

[Fozzie Bear]

That helps a lot, thanks! Now, what if a patch or iron-on happened to say "Not for resale" on it? Then you couldn't sell things you'd made with it, right? how come purchasing the quilting book isn't considered the same as purchasing the quilting fabric, i.e. it's illegal to put together the patterns out of felt from the book and sell a quilt, but you could sell a quilt made with preprinted character fabrics?

Licensing rights.

If the fabric is bought with the characters pre-printed on there, the characters have been licensed out for use in that medium. It is then the same as buying any other material with a pattern on it and making an outfit to sell.

If you buy a book that tells you how to make yourself a Kermit the Frog applique sweatshirt, the characters and patterns are licensed for that book and you can make it for your own use; but, if you make the item yourself to sell the item without first licensing the characters THEN you become a copyright infringer.

Likewise, the computer program is licensed and could work the same way as the printed cloth material with patterns.