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ePatterns & DRG Texas
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Added May 15, 2007

DRG Texas, a wholly-owned subsidary of the Muselman Family from Berne Indiana, joins these pages through ePatterns, one of their many (apparently mis-guided) companies. DRG Texas also receives the Tabberone WESAYSO Company Award.

goliath.ecnext.com lists companies and their corporate information. For DRG Texas, a wholly-owned subsidary of the Muselman Family from Berne Indiana, goliath.ecnext.com lists them under Yarn Spinning Mills. Well, they are spinning more than knitting yarn on their copyright statement page on their web site.
It looks like the great minds at DRG Texas, a wholly-owned subsidary of the Muselman Family from Berne Indiana, are not aware of what they can and cannot claim as exclusive rights under U.S. Copyright Law.
In their copyright statement, they flatly claim:
You do not have the right to use a design for creation of items that are to be sold or used for any other commercial reason. This includes craft shows, bazaars, fund-raisers, etc.
What is in the water in Big Sandy, Texas? Is there peyote growing wild nearby? or did your collective mommies drop you on your teeny collective heads when you were born?
Your copyright extends only to the patterns you are selling. The purchaser may not copy these patterns for the purpose of selling them or to give them away. That's it. Period. The patterns are covered, not anything made from the patterns, you nincompoops!
You cannot claim that the end product is covered by your copyright because you are not selling them an end product, just instructions on how they can make it. You cannot claim the end product is a derivative because the end product is a useful item, a clothing item, and therefor it cannot be copyrighted. For a product to be a derivative it must be copyrightable (see Batlin).
There is no federal or state statute supporting your outrageous claim. There is no federal or state court decision supporing your outrageous claim.
Who is your legal beagle? Tweedle Dum or Tweedle Dee? We're betting on Dum. Considering the large number of web sites and publications owned by DRG Texas, a wholly-owned subsidary of the Muselman Family from Berne Indiana, you are doing the sewing community a major dis-service speading the crap that you do about selling items made from your designs. You are pathetic.

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