Wednesday, October 24, 2007

I did the divide-fronts-and-backs last night on the u-neck vest, and I am very nearly to the point of binding off for the neckline. (I think what is working best for me is picking up a different project each night, though when I get close to finishing something I tend to want to work on it more).

Oh, and I have to say: sometimes I think I'm immature, then I see something like this happen, and I figure I'm pretty grown-up after all. (If you don't feel like following the link: you're aware of a company in NYC who is apparently challenging Debbie Stoller's right to use "Stitch and Bitch" [and, more importantly, as far as I'm concerned, is disallowing hundreds of grassroots groups who WERE on Yahoo as Stitch and Bitch, from using that term, saying it "hurts their business"]? Well, SOMEONE is now making t-shirts as a bit of a poke in the eye to the people who are pointing out that "Stitch and Bitch," as a term, has been around since the 1940s at least, and cannot really be copyrighted, no more than P*ris Hilton can copyright "That's Hot" as a catchphrase....the really funny thing? The makers of the t-shirts used the word "Craftster" on one of them, which IS a copyrighted term belonging to Leah Kramer.

Huh. So I guess THEY can claim rights to what they want, but the law is fungible when it pertains to others' copyrights.

I dunno. If I were the judge in that case, I'd have my slappin' mackerels out.

(Vague reference to Monty Python...and yes, it was a dance, not a legal proceedings, but still...I think there are some people who need a faceful of dead fish in this to wake them up).

1 comment:

dragon knitter said...

my exact comment w as "can i puke now?"

pulease!

this suit has gone beyond ridiculous!