But I’m still unclear regarding your response to Mika.
First you say:
“the cost of the license is $6 per garment, so you would want to build that cost into your margins.”

Then you add: “You can re-use the patterns as much as you like, so you don’t have to purchase a new pattern for each garment you sell.”

So… are you saying you require one license for each pattern – unlimited use?

Or are you saying the sewer pays $6for each garment made from the same pattern? But can obviously re-use the pattern to your heart’s content as long as you don’t sell more?

The program is not something we had ever considered doing, but we’ve launched it in response to requests from our customers.

We’ve created this program because in the months since the patterns launched, we’ve been overwhelmed with requests for permission to make and sell garments from people who understand and respect copyright. We really believe that people in the boutique sewer community want to do the right thing in relation to copyright, and we’ve responded with a program that makes it easy to do that.

To answer your question directly, every sewing pattern is covered by copyright, but it’s up to the designer or producer of that pattern to enforce. Butterick, Simplicity, Vogue, and every other pattern company that copyrights its work could sue anyone who sold a garment made from one of their designs. Most large companies, though, don’t find that it’s worth their while to monitor and enforce infringements of their copyright. Other companies and designers, though, are very prohibitive and strictly prohibit any use of their intellectual property for profit.

We’d like to set a middle ground with this arrangement so that we can continue to produce new patterns while also permitting the sewers who use them to make a profit from our design work as well. That’s why we’ve made it so simple, easy, and inexpensive to participate in this program.

Please understand, as well, that it’s only if you make and sell something from our patterns that copyright comes into play. You are more than welcome to make as many garments from a single one of our patterns as you like as long as they are for personal use or given as gifts. Copyright only comes into play when someone wants to profit from a copyright holder’s work. For us, that means when someone wants to sell a finished garment made from one of our designs.

If this innovative approach to licensing works, we want to grow this program into something much bigger and better than what we’ve launched. We can see turning this into a real community and international marketplace for people who want to sell and buy garments made from our patterns. We want to highlight, draw attention to, and help market the skills of the amazing boutique sewers who have contacted us because they are doing wonderfully creative, fine handcraft. But for us to be able to do this, we need to have the participation of people in this community. We’ve made it easy for people to participate, and we’ve worked hard to bring the cost for a license down to a point that we think can still work within the economics of the boutique sewing market.

I think it’s going to be a really neat program, and we hope you’ll like it as well.