My sweet patient wife bought me some plans of a chair she wants built. No doubt a hint I picked up on.
This is the first time I am ever working off a real plan. I noticed that there was a notation about ” this is for personal use and not to be labeled or sold”
So help me what do they mean by labeled? I think the sold thing would require a royalty, got no problem with that.
Next question in the old brain? how much would you have to vary the plan to call it your own interpretation? And perhaps sell it? The chair not the plan. Or maybe the plan??
Since many chairs have been made for many years how would on differentiate a new plan from something “uncle George made in his shop 65 years ago but didn’t claim copyright” ? and the natural variations of hand made furniture.
Help me folks
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Just guessing, but 'label' could mean that you should not claim it to be your design. If you make one leg about half the length of the other three (or two) or have the backrest pointing toward the floor, you'd be entitled to use your label. You could claim that the difference is not only visual but also (dis)functional and marriage enhancing. :-)
Best wishes,
Metod
Don't quote me on this, but I recall being told at one point that if you change %20 of the design then it can be called yours. Again, don't quote me on that.
Chris
My take on labeled would mean , if it were a plan of a Stickley piece you would not be welcome to label it Stickley built .
I don't think you have to change the dimensions by vary much but that would be a different design .
dusty
Shoe,
One wonders how those rascally plan-sellers would prove that you used "their" plan rather than the aeons of woodworking traditions and designs to make the chair - the very same traditions and designs they used to make their plan, in fact.
Lataxe of the society agin the annexation of commonly-owned intellectual history by thieving plan-purveyors.
Lataxe you wax poetic. Thanks.
Like the guy who tried to get a genetic patent on a bean growen in Mexico for years. The first to the patent office does not make you an inventor!Thanks for the input I like the 1 leg shorter than the other idea and the face down incline but then I would get a copyrighted smack from Sweet wife across the forehead. Oak or maple it would still hurt, but the maple would not leave an open grain pattern as the scar heals!
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