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Copyright of characters

I’ve got a bit of a foolish question. I’ve seen a lot of people, both on here and elsewhere, selling crochet items that are trademarked/copyrighted characters, like San Rio and Disney and Studio Ghibli characters. Everything I have researched says this is copyright infringement. Am I missing something, and there is some sort of loophole here? Or are people just breaking copyright without knowing and then getting away with it? I’m not trying to create controversy, just genuinely curious.

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Copyright of characters

using images you don’t own, passing off patterns you don’t own as your own, using licensed images that are both copyrighted and trademarked (Disney, Nintendo, Sanrio, sports teams, movie characters etc) unless you have legal permission from the actual owner, is infringement Some people don’t know that they are actually breaking the law (in the US Federal law) doing this Sites make it difficult to take down infringing material as the actual owner has to send (or their attorney does) an officia…

Copyright of characters

Disney is notorious for aggressively defending their intellectual property rights. A lot of their work is not only copyrighted but trademarked as well Trademarks have to be aggressively protected by their owners or they risk losing them I have an associates of arts degree in paralegal studies (I don’t work as a paralegal presently, when I did it was in worker’s compensation, the attorneys who fight for employees injured on the job).

Copyright of characters

A crochet designer I admire greatly and have followed online for years has written an article about copyright