Legalities of selling your cross stitch

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Re: Legalities of selling your cross stitch

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RMDC wrote:I'm not a lawyer - though I'm married to one - and this is not legal advice from me or from my in-house counsel, but:

this...
kuja.girl wrote:Here's some clarification. I am not an expert but this is what I've learned about US copyright recently.
  • Using 10% (or less) of a work falls under fair use.
  • Parts of a published product cannot be copyrighted, only the final product (aka the game not the art).
... is not actually true.
trying to summarize copyright is pretty much impossible. I what I wrote isn't untrue but is was perhaps too abbreviated to be of much help, which is why I had the disclaimer about not being an expert. There is a fine line between art and fair use/reuse, so when in doubt, the ask a lawyer.
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