Interesting thread with info on licensed fabrics (Amy Butler)

http://www.etsy.com/forums_topic.php?thread_id=20048&page_id=1

If you use any kind of licensed fabric, you may want to read this thread....yes the entire thread.

 

Glad you posted this because I was just about to order some from my local fabric store!!

 

I wouldn't knowingly buy her fabrics after reading that. If more felt that way there would be a definite drop in sales.

 

The fact that you can't use the fabric for resale clothing seems kind of silly to me. Granted it is beautiful fabric but it still seems pretty foolish. Thats just my two cents

 

agreed, it does sound silly.... It's a quick way to loose a customer, like the person in the article...

 

I emailed the company via the website for the fabrics because I do have some and was baffled as to why they think they can control what you do with the fabric after you buy it and they responded in an email to me saying they were too vague on their statement and were getting alot of fallout from customers and were in the process of revising their position to You can make up to 100 items a year with the fabrics and resell them. After that they would consider you a retail business and be subject to their retail rules.

So it is safe to sew away.

 

Actually if you go to tabberone's site you'll see that they can't even force you to stay in the under 100 items guidlines they now have posted on their site.

Amy Butler doesn't seem to understand copyright law.

 

They sang me a sad song that people were making bags and using her name as if she had made the bag and they got a lot of calls from folks complaining about the quality as if Amy Butler were to blame. I agree it is noone's damn businesss what you do with fabric after it is bought. I don't plan on gettin any more fabric of hers.

 

I looked at her site and checked out her stuff - and am I alone in thinking it's completely, totally, horrendously, UGLY? Not to mention, the whole site is totally unintuitive and a bitch to even get around. These are exactly the kind of pretentious people I was looking to get away from for all the years I studied graphic design.

You have to let go at some point, and start thinkin' on your next idea! (Rather than holding on for dear life to every piece and doodle you've ever made and making a paycheck that way).