Considering selling machine

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consider buying your patterns from some of the other sellers many are members here and have their own websites. Those patterns are not locked and are yours. Just do not sell them to others or on ebay. Also there are some on here who will take commissions for creating patterns for you. If you pay someone to make a pattern for you then you own the pattern to do as you wish including reselling in most cases.

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consider buying your patterns from some of the other sellers many are members here and have their own websites. Those patterns are not locked and are yours. Just do not sell them to others or on ebay. Also there are some on here who will take commissions for creating patterns for you. If you pay someone to make a pattern for you then you own the pattern to do as you wish including reselling in most cases.

Let's look at this from the other direction. This is at least the way I see it:

Joe Pattern Maker creates a pattern and sells it through the Pattern Depot, where it is licensed and protected from being resold or given away (say, on an eBay disk). Each time his creation is purchased, he gets paid for it.

Now, consider, if you will...Joe Pattern Maker creates a pattern and sells it through his own site or takes a one time payment from a custom design. Now that pattern is free to anyone and Joe Pattern Maker has no way of protecting it from free distribution. He may never see another penny from his efforts.

Now to say "all the hundreds of dollars of patterns I bought are not mine" is not true...they are yours and yours to use as many times as you like, they are just not yours to sell or give away. They are Joe Pattern Makers to sell or give away.

Joe Pattern Vendor creates the pattern, uploads to website and they sit back and wait for a check.

Yes, LHR gets half of the cost of the patterns sold, but they host the website that gets THOUSANDS of visits per month, they do the advertising, they purchased the store software that displays them, they created the mechanism for insuring the creator gets compensated for their creation, they process all of the purchases, they do the accounting and process a commission check each month.