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title: Can I copy an existing design?
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This questions comes up in various forms, but it boils down to: How much am I
This question comes up in various forms, but it boils down to: How much am I
allowed to copy from, or be inspired by, an existing product when designing
patterns.
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Instead, your guiding principle should be: **Don't be a dick**.
So while I'm not in the business of telling people what to do, when it comes to
So while we're not in the business of telling people what to do, when it comes to
contributing to FreeSewing, here are some practical examples:
## Do you accept contributions that are a copy of a commercial pattern?
Absolutely not.
Copying a commercial pattern is obviously a dick move, and I won't accept any
contribution if I know it was ripped from a commercial pattern.
Copying a commercial pattern is obviously a dick move, and we won't accept any
contribution if we know it was ripped from a commercial pattern.
You are directly undercutting the original designer. And regardless of whether
that's an indie designer who might be depending on the sales of their pattern
to put food on the table, or some big pattern company that you feel should be
to put food on the table or some big pattern company that you feel should be
taken down a notch: It doesn't matter. Not cool. Don't do this.
## Do you accept contributrion that are a copy of an existing garment?
Yes.
Do you own something you really love, or saw something on the runway that has
Do you own something you really love or saw something on the runway that has
you swooning? Go ahead and (try to) replicate that look in a pattern you design
yourself. It's fair game, it's how the fashion industry operates.
yourself. It's fair game; it's how the fashion industry operates.
One could argue that it is probably impossible to come up with a design that is
not -- to some extend -- influenced by things we've seen before.
not -- to some extent -- influenced by things we've seen before.
<Note>
### Don't pretend trademarks don't exists
### Don't pretend trademarks don't exist
This should go without saying, but this does not mean you can put *Gucci* (or
This should go without saying, but this does not mean you can put "*Gucci*" (or
whatever) on your design.
</Note>
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Coffin](https://www.amazon.com/Shirtmaking-Developing-Skills-Fine-Sewing-ebook/dp/B00243GMOO)
(who was a friend of FreeSewing and is sorely missed 💔 )
- [Patternmaking for Menswear by Gareth
Kershaw](https://www.instagram.com/pattern_cutting_for_menswear/) (probably
Kershaw](https://www.laurenceking.com/products/pattern-cutting-for-menswear) (probably
the best teacher out there)