creative commons licence can i sell the finished product from a pattern i purchased under this law?
i purchased a crochet pattern from the internet and when i got the pattern which i paid for it said it’s under creative commons non commercial 3.0 licence does this mean i can sell the finished product? And if not how much different does it have to be to sell? I told her i would give her credit for selling the item but she said i couldn’t sell the item but the whole point of me buying the pattern was to sell the finished product so what can i do?
Sounds odd, did you buy the pattern from the authors site? If so, was the license type clearly stated when you purchased it? Though items can be sold under CC licenses, more often than not most items under a CC license are free.
If it came down to it, and you sold it you could be sued for the copyright violation. A copyright must be defended, in other words it would be on her to prove you violated her copyright. Of course if you sold it as a fundraiser for a not for profit group then the noncommercial restrictions do not apply.
Something else to consider is that your work is a derivative work, and you are not selling the original work. While copyright laws do extend to derivative work, in this case I would think any copyright claim by the author would be questionable and some fair use questions would also arise. Since you are not impacting the authors ability to make money off of the original pattern.
I know your trying to do the right thing here, but you could just take your chances and sell it at the craft fair anyhow. Of course if you want to remain on the high road and did indeed buy the pattern from the author and she did not clearly state the license before the purchase, some well placed posts on the internet could go a way to shut her and her unscrupulous business practices.
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