Eavesdrop on a Telephone Conversation with
Sylvia Landman Rasmussen, Copyright Expert

From: Penny Halgren
Date:

Dear Friend,

It's not a problem until you get a letter from a lawyer or are slapped with a lawsuit. Then, it's a problem, and then it is too late to say "I didn't know."

Quilters are so used to sharing - fabric, thread, rulers, and all kinds of other things - that sometimes it doesn't occur to us that sharing a pattern might lead to trouble.

I'm sure that many of us have made quilts for a charity auction. If you used a pattern to make the quilt, do you know whether it was legal for you to sell the quilt - even for charity?

We probably all know not to copy pages from a book and sell them without permission from the author. But do you know what the circumstances are that you might need permission from the designer of a quilt or pattern maker in order to use their design other than to make a quilt and use it yourself?

Frankly, before I started my business, I hadn't thought about any of those things.

Maybe I got lucky; or maybe I did something I shouldn't have. I guess I'll find out this Thursday when Sylvia Landman Rasmussen is our guest for our Eavesdrop on a Telephone Conversation.

Sylvia is a quilter, business owner and copyright expert. And she will be available for us to pick her brain about coyrights and quilts - so we can sleep at night, knowing that the quilt we made for charity is perfectly legal to sell or raffle away.

It all took place on Thursday, October 23, at 5pm Pacific Time.

Sylvia talked about a wide range of issues relating to copyrights, including:

describing what a copyright is what kind of protections a copyright affords the owner whether we should register our works and how to go about registering for a coypright what our protection is if we don't register how we know whether a quilt pattern is copyright protected if a pattern is protected how can we use it whether there are any limits to copyright protection and much more Listen to a clip from the Conversation as Sylvia answers the question about whether you can copy a commercial pattern to use as a prize in a charity (including quilt guild) auction or raffle: Visit Sylvia Landman Rasmussen's website

This was a fabulous call with some interesting and surprising information. If you missed it, you can still get this great information by getting a CD recording of the call:

Yes! Send me a recording of the call with Sylvia Landman Rasmussen for a tiny $24.97 plus $2.50 shipping and handling.

Or, You May Want to Join the Eavesdropping Quilters Club

Now the Club is even better. Eavesdropping Quilters Club members receive a CD recording of every call delivered directly to them via snail mail. And because we want you to have quick access to the call and easy access to the transcript, we have arranged for the full call to be posted in TheQuiltingCoach.com.

What this means to you is that within two days after the call, the full, unedited recording will be posted and you can log into your account in TheQuiltingCoach.com and listen on your computer. The transcript will follow along a few days later. Then when the CD recording shows up in your mailbox, you'll be able to listen in your car or on your computer.

TheQuiltingCoach.com is loaded with great quilting information, and as a member of the Official Eavesdropping Quilters Club, you will also have access to the complete Download Library, which houses hundreds of quilt block patterns, step-by-step instructions for quilts and quilt blocks, all of the Telephone Worksheets and Transcripts, the online version of TheQuiltingCoach.com monthly newsletter, disucssion forums, and much more.

If you are not already a member, by joining TODAY, you will receive a CD recording of both of the October Eavesdrop on a Telephone Conversation calls - with Sandy Muckenthaler from Hoffman Fabrics as well as with Sylvia Landman Rasmussen. Plus you will get a CD case to house all of your Eavesdrop on a Telephone Conversation recordings.

This much improved access to the Eavesdrop on a Telephone Conversations is available to you at the same current low rate as just receiving the CD recording in the mail - a tiny $24 per month - which includes shipping and handling of the CD recordings.

I know you will see instantly that this is a great deal, with better access to all of this fabulous quilting information than is currently available.

Warning! This Club membership is due to go up next year! But not for current members. Last year when the Club began, we were having only one Conversation each month, with an occasional month with two Conversations.

Due to the popularity of the Club, and the wealth of information available to us, it has become more routine to have two calls each month, thereby doubling my costs, while the price remains the same.

In addition, as I mentioned on the call with Sylvia, I will be hosting webinars in the near future. This technology gives us an opportunity to use video and pictures on the internet to demonstrate what we are talking about on the phone. Not to panic - this is easy to use, plus, if you are not near a computer, the Conversation will describe all. And the presentation materials will be available in TheQuiltingCoach.com Eavesdropping Quilters Club members area.

I am committed to keeping your investment as low as possible, and will maintain the current rate for all Eavesdropping Quilters who are members before the rate increases.

So, by joining today, you will ensure access to valuable quilting information on a continuing basis. You will hear the full Conversation (including previous Conversations), get the transcripts and worksheets, plus much of the other information available on the site.

For all of the details, visit:

Subscription Form for Eavesdrop on a Telephone Conversation Membership Plan

Happy Quilting!

Penny Halgren

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