What is meant by copyright in this specific knitting context?
Copyright is the body of law that protects a designer’s hard work in its tangible form as a written pattern, whether in hard print or on the Internet. Unless it says otherwise in the copyright notice, this includes the written words, photographs, charts, diagrams and any audio or video reproduction of the instructions. The copyright notice generally contains the following three elements: the word “copyright” or the copyright symbol, the year and a name. The use of “Copyright” or “©” indicates that the pattern as written is the original work of the copyright holder, whose name appears next to it. The year represents the year the work was created and the beginning date or renewal date of its copyright protection. The copyright notice usually is found either at the beginning of a book or in the masthead of a magazine, or at the beginning or end of a document. Most importantly, under current U. S. copyright law, anything given expression in a tangible form, as described above, and publishe
