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| ScotiaStarr Hall Of Shame Member Added August 31, 2006 |
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ScotiaStarr, who is also using her eBay ID as her ID on her membership with the CKDA (Canadian Knitwear Designers & Artisans),
shut down auctions where the sellers were selling knitted dog sweaters which she alleged were infringing upon her protected rights.
But clothing designs, whether for humans or animals, cannot be copyrighted and had she taken the time and effort to investigate before taking
harmful action, she would have known this. But we think she did not care to know.
The problem we see is that she can stop others from copying and selling her designs, if she bothered to take the time and expense to try to copyright them, but she cannot lawfully stop folks from being creative and doing the designs from memory and/or knitting the designs from her patterns and then selling them. Her copyright protection only applies to her uncopyrighted patterns, again if she could actually copyright them by registering them with the copyright office, and not the work product of someone using the patterns. From the US Copyright web site (copyright in Canada is very similar to US copyrights): Useful Articles
A 'useful article" is an object having an intrinsic utilitar¡ a function that is not merely to portray the appearance of the
article or to convey information. Examples are clothing, furniture, machinery, dinnerware, and lighting fixtures. An article that
is normally part of a useful article may itself be a useful article, for example, an ornamental wheel cover on a vehicle.
Copyright does not protect the mechanical or utilitarian aspects of such works of craftsmanship. ScotiaStarr seems to believe that eBay has a sole-ownership program, which it does not. She alleges that her "sole-ownership" does not have to be registered to be exclusively hers! She is really clueless. She actually thinks all she has to do is snap her fingers and the rest of the world must comply with her wishes. When notified, ScotiaStarr replied: |
Once again I fail to see where you are going with this. I am registed in Vero under the sole ownership program. Not under the copyrighted items program. This DMCA deals with digital media, service providers etc. Not with Artisans and sole property ownership. This Sweater pattern is not a registered copyrighted pattern as the pattern has never been written out for sale, and therefore it doesn't have to be legally registered. You have filed a complaint wrongly!. I can't understand why you are so insistant on this since you have already admitted to copying my pattern (which has been filed with Vero). I have contacted Vero again concerning this issue to notify them that you filed a wrongful complaint. |
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WRONG! Creative works are not deemed to be the property of the originators unless the originators taken the required legal steps to register those works with the respective government agencies. This requirement protects the creators as well as the general public by establishing a process by which actual originial works are registered and thererby protected. This process also does not allow parties to falsely claim they own an idea when in fact they do not. And clothing designs are not copyrightable! In our opinion, aside from the fact she is a raving lunatic, ScotiaStarr is abusing the eBay VeRO program to stiffle competition. She does not have any intellectual property rights as she claims and she has no real idea of what those rights entail. In fact, as of December 4, 2005, she is still using in her listings that, "This Pattern design is protected by VeRO (Ebays Verified Rights Owners Program)", when in fact that is NOT the case. By becoming a member of eBay's VeRO program, ScotiaStarr has forfeited protections and privacy. By shutting down auctions to which she has no valid rights, ScotiaStarr is opening herself up to potential federal court cases which will become a matter of public record as are the takedowns. This posting about ScotiaStarr complies with eBay's privacy regulations as we have not posted her full name, address, city, or contact information. The fact she uses her eBay ID in other locations and on a web site is not our problem. scotiastarr@yahoo.com was one email she was using. From http://profiles.gaycanada.com/scotiastarr as of Oct 31, 2006: 57, Married, 5'6, Mixed Colour hair, Green eyes, District/Community: Mt Uniacke, NS. |
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