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Hello to all the knitters from my wife's knitting blog! She was kind enough to link to this site, to help redress the fact that her knitting blog gets 5x the readers my legal ethics blog does -- go figure. Are there any ethical conflicts in knitting? The comments section is open.
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Hi nona-hubby/John,
Sure there are ethical conflicts in knitting. Knitting patterns are intellectual properties. In one knitter's blog, you can find this:
"I will not, under any circumstances, make copies of copyrighted patterns for you. Period. Please do not ask, as I will not respond to your request. Emailing me insults and abuse will not change my mind. Duh." (Wendy Knits!)
So, you can tell from this that there are people who would infringe on knit designers' copyrighted properties.
Have a nice weekend.
Posted by: Agnes | April 30, 2005 at 01:26 AM
It's a small world! I read your wife's blog (and knit!) and took your ethics class at Boalt in the fall of 2002! I was curious about the link, but I was quite surprised at the coincidence!
Posted by: Michelle | May 01, 2005 at 02:36 AM
Agnes:
Yes, I can see how an author of a pattern wouldn't want it copied that way. Some time ago, I was familiar with the copyrightability of quilt designs, but I am not up on my knitting copyrights.
John Steele
Posted by: John Steele | May 01, 2005 at 11:57 AM
Michelle:
That is an amazing coincidence. Great to hear from you.
I recall that one student used to knit in class. Was that you? I have been told that knitting is no impediment to active listening.
John Steele
Posted by: John Steele | May 01, 2005 at 12:05 PM
Thank the lawyer. A great, age old hobby, for the loving, hand made production of warm clothing, is now the subject of outrageous litigation against grandmothers. What is the stitch count that has to match before jack booted thugs bang on the door of grandma and throw her in the street to enforce a heinous lawyer judgment, so it can service the Gulfstream fleet?
All of it is totally vague and requires the hiring of a self-dealing, rent-seeking, criminal cult enterprise lawyer to avoid losing the house for a sweater, with no clear rules, one must hire another rent-seeking lawyer. One files a meritless, ridiculous lawsuit, one defends it, with a criminal cult enterprise (CCE) buffoon in the middle, yet another lawyer. One sweater, 3 lawyers, no clear rules, so they can run up the bill.
http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall03/FEATcopyright.html
Naturally, the filing of a meritless lawsuit violates the Rules of Conduct. However, please, find one case of a CCE lawyer being sanctioned for abusing an adverse third party. All sanctions are in the public record, most on the web. To the experts here, find just one, in all of history. Complaints by judges do not count.
Posted by: SupremacyClaus | May 01, 2005 at 09:04 PM
I only did it once. I wasn't quite sure it would be accetable. A year later my husband took your class and told me that you announced at the beginning that knitting was the one thing it was okay to do in class... I wish I'd known that the year before!
And you've been well-informed-- knitting isn't an impediment to active listening (just the opposite on some occasions).
Posted by: Michelle | May 03, 2005 at 01:43 AM