Computer Generated Cross Stitch Charts and Patterns on eBay and Copyrights

Ebay is a place that you can actually find anything! Lately you can find wonderful designs of computer generated cross stitch charts/patterns and they are very cheap. However, quite a lot of these are actually illegal and should not be sold on ebay or anywhere else.

New sellers with low feedback appear on ebay every week. Most of them sell Disney cross stitch charts. We all love Winnie the Pooh, Mickey and other Disney characters but buyers should be alert and do not buy any of it if they think it is illegal. I know it is very tempting to buy and save some money but you encourage these sellers to continue doing what they are doing, making money from other people's work.

Some people think that selling computer generated charts is easy money and will steal any beautiful copyrighted picture to achieve their goal! They don't ask the artist's permission to use their work, they don't mention the artist's name in the listing and they practically don't care.

Legitimate sellers will state in their listings the name of the artist of which the picture is coming from. Of course there are many images in the public domain and anyone may use them for commercial or personal use. These images are usually fine art pictures from famous painters that copyright has expired. If anyone would like to check expired copyrights, Wikepidia, a free content encyclopedia on the internet, is good place to start.

Images or pictures of the following will NEVER be found on public domain:

* Disney characters

* Pixar characters

* Harry Potter

* Fantasy fairies - especially from artists Amy brown, Anna Ignatieva (famous from her water fairy), Nene Thomas.

This is just a sort list of some of the artists whose work is being used excessively on ebay.

At the moment, it is also illegal if you take an artist's picture and change it by adding a different background or change the color of the picture. I have seen this happening by ebayers who seem to have excellent skills on photoshop! However, it doesn't change the fact that the picture is stolen and only belongs to the original artist. Noone can change or amend a copyrighted picture without the artist's permission.

It is a matter of time before these sellers will be caught and reported to ebay. Ebay has a rule about copyright infringement and will suspend their accounts.

Something else you should be aware of: legally, you can not make a copy of a cross stitch chart and distribute to friends without the permission of the copyright owner. However you can make a copy only for your own use.

The author is an ebay PowerSeller and also owner of Yiotas-XStitch website http://www.yiotas-xstitch.com that sells cross stitch charts/patterns of fine art and victorian designs.

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