Dr. Elizabeth Townsend Gard is a professor of copyright law at Tulane University in New Orleans. She has been instrumental in building the Just Wanna Quilt community, podcast, research project and publishing arm. There’s also a Just Wanna Quilt Facebook Group. Elizabeth’s curiosity and enthusiasm are infectious. I am excited that she invited me to […]
Copyright
Copyright Questions
I am preparing a presentation for the Victorian Quilters annual general meeting next month. The subject is copyright and quilting. I commend the Guild on highlighting this important education issue with its members and I am keen to make my presentation as practical and relevant as possible. Naturally I will cover copyright fundamentals – what […]
Pinterest Secret Boards
I joined Pinterest early on and understand its appeal. I keep a low profile partly due to copyright concerns about pinning and sharing work that is not mine to share in this way. I have sometimes wished that I could pin images and create boards for my eyes only. Now Pinterest allows you to do […]
Quilt Show Photography and Online Sharing Guidelines
Cameras and other electronic devices with photography and video functions are ubiquitous and online image-sharing options abound. This technology may be mainstream but there remains a great deal of confusion, mis-understanding and misinformation about copyright and image sharing etiquette. Against this background, in 2011 I was invited to write an article for Quilters Companion magazine […]
Copyright Infringement & Letters of Demand Resources
Two or three months ago, I discovered that an Australian enterprise was using an image of one of my distinctive improvisational quilts as the background for its promotional materials in a wide range of online and print media. I will not go into specific details but I am pleased to say that direct telephone contact, […]
