Copyright Violation?

[GeorgeM]

Hi All

Occasionally, while reading one of my woodworking magazines or while looking at a book of plans at the library, I will find a project that I think would be a good item to sell at a craft show. What suggestions do you have to avoid copyright violations?

Thanks
GeorgeM

[wa2crk]

HI George
I have never run into a copyright problem so I have difficulty answering your question. My daughter did some craft stuff years ago and she was selling curio cabinets that looked like gasoline pumps and she used to put images of Nascar drivers on the pumps and paint them the team colors. What she got was a cease and desist letter asking her to stop.
So she sold the pumps and told the buyer to buy their images from a legal Nascar provider and she would put "His" artwork on to "His" cabinet after the sale.
If I were you I would make some changes to the detailing of the project to make it look different and then sell them. If it has scrolling make it different. There is no rule that two people can not come up with similar designs in the same time frame.
Bill V

[dusty]

Hi All

Occasionally, while reading one of my woodworking magazines or while looking at a book of plans at the library, I will find a project that I think would be a good item to sell at a craft show. What suggestions do you have to avoid copyright violations?

Thanks
GeorgeM

If it is not your creation - don't sell it and whatever you do it absolutely must not resemble anything from Warner or Disney etc.

[charlese]

You will have to read the copyright!

If the protection is only to protect the plans, then projects made from the plans are not protected.

However many copyrights protect against selling projects made from plans.

You can get an idea from the plans and make your own plans that are individually a personal project - not the same, but may be similar - then the project is yours and you can do anything you want with the project.

For example, If you find plans for a standing polar bear and that gives you an idea to design your own standing polar bear. The bear made from your own plans are yours. Only yours! Most Polar bears look similar.

Another, perhaps simpler way to avoid problems is; (after reading the Copyright) contact the plan maker and ask if you can sell the project providing you give credit to the plans maker.

[ERLover]

Dusty and all,
funny you mention the Disney thing, and you are as always spot on!!!!
I have been a down skier and racer all my adult life, so I am at Mammoth Mnt ski complex in CA, for a national seniors race competition, going up a chair lift with a couple other guys, one I ski race against in the seniors national championships, he lives in Taos New Mexico and has a ski shop called "Lunney Tunes Ski Shop" he specializes to ski racers. So on a chair lift your skis are dangling in your foresight, and on his was a sticker that said, "tuned at Lunney Tune ski shop", the other guy was who was not a racer start asking him about his ski shop and why he called it Lunney Tunes, he said I specialize in tuning racers skis, and all racers are nuts too get ever advantage over other racers.
The other guy sez I work for the Disney Corp, well me and him stay in email contact, whiten a week he got a nasty gram from Disney Corp with a change your name our be sued!!!!

[Ed in Tampa]

Dusty and all,
funny you mention the Disney thing, and you are as always spot on!!!!
I have been a down skier and racer all my adult life, so I am at Mammoth Mnt ski complex in CA, for a national seniors race competition, going up a chair lift with a couple other guys, one I ski race against in the seniors national championships, he lives in Taos New Mexico and has a ski shop called "Lunney Tunes Ski Shop" he specializes to ski racers. So on a chair lift your skis are dangling in your foresight, and on his was a sticker that said, "tuned at Lunney Tune ski shop", the other guy was who was not a racer start asking him about his ski shop and why he called it Lunney Tunes, he said I specialize in tuning racers skis, and all racers are nuts too get ever advantage over other racers.
The other guy sez I work for the Disney Corp, well me and him stay in email contact, whiten a week he got a nasty gram from Disney Corp with a change your name our be sued!!!!

Something is wrong with this since Loonie Tunes is a Warner Bros. entity not Disney's. Why would Disney send a letter about a copywrite violation for a copywrite they don't own?

[rjent]

Dusty and all,
funny you mention the Disney thing, and you are as always spot on!!!!
I have been a down skier and racer all my adult life, so I am at Mammoth Mnt ski complex in CA, for a national seniors race competition, going up a chair lift with a couple other guys, one I ski race against in the seniors national championships, he lives in Taos New Mexico and has a ski shop called "Lunney Tunes Ski Shop" he specializes to ski racers. So on a chair lift your skis are dangling in your foresight, and on his was a sticker that said, "tuned at Lunney Tune ski shop", the other guy was who was not a racer start asking him about his ski shop and why he called it Lunney Tunes, he said I specialize in tuning racers skis, and all racers are nuts too get ever advantage over other racers.
The other guy sez I work for the Disney Corp, well me and him stay in email contact, whiten a week he got a nasty gram from Disney Corp with a change your name our be sued!!!!

Something is wrong with this since Loonie Tunes is a Warner Bros. entity not Disney's. Why would Disney send a letter about a copywrite violation for a copywrite they don't own?

Disney bought all of the Looney Tunes character and content from Warner a few years ago, and have become bugg bunny Nazi's ever since.

I swear, if the dovetail joint had been developed over the last 30 years or so, we all would be either prevented from using it, or required to pay a royalty to do so. Silly.

[GeorgeM]

Hi

Thanks to all who responded.

GeorgeM

[ERLover]

Ed, just take me out and shoot me!!!!! I have not watched cartoons since 1959, His ski shop was named Loonie Tunes, I was wrong it was not Disney must have been Warner Bros guy. The point was about copy right laws, and how strict companies are to protect them, even to someones harmless and usually unknown infringement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ed in Tampa]

Ed, just take me out and shoot me!!!!! I have not watched cartoons since 1959, His ski shop was named Loonie Tunes, I was wrong it was not Disney must have been Warner Bros guy. The point was about copy right laws, and how strict companies are to protect them, even to someones harmless and usually unknown infringement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't think that is shoot able offense . We could flog you with a wet shagetti!

As far as Wikipedia knows Loonie Tunes is still owned by Warner. And in 2013 Warner was given an award for it.