Sunday, June 30, 2013

Credit Due

CREDIT - where credit is due!

I was doing some pinning today on Pinterest and realized I have made one of the worst mistakes in quilting! That is not giving credit to others for their work. If yours happens to be one of the photos I have pinned without credit, please email me and I will correct it right away.

Sometimes as we hurry along through the day and grab something here and there, we forget to gather data and information. As quilters who each produce one of a kind projects, which is usually all we ever receive for our work; credit that we made it. The problem with not giving credit to others, is sometimes it can get mixed up with someone else's work. Worse, it could be assumed the user is trying to take credit for another quilter's work. 

I can go on and on about copyright, infringement, taking someone's idea, copying patterns and much more. The world of quilting is very sensitive about giving credit to other's ideas, and not stealing someone's patterns. There, I said it out load. Don't steal other quilters' patterns!

The next post I do is going to be about copyrighting your own ideas. Once you start, you will never again want other's to take credit for your work or ideas, and you will not want to take others'.  I just wanted to lead with this for a while since I did pin some miscellaneous quilt photos without proper information. In my defense, some did not have the information from the original locations, but still, we should all be much better about giving credit where credit is due. Especially me! TTFN

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