• You bought the book or DVD. You paid to take the class. Now what can you do with this information? 
• You come up with a great new piece and are asked to teach or demonstrate how you did it. How do you protect your idea? Do you need to copyright your tutorial? 

Know what your rights are and what is illegal and/or unethical, before you teach or sell your work .... or someone else's!

View Bead and Button Magazine's statement on "Beaders' Ethics" (linked by permission). This includes a great position statement, which they encourage artists to include when selling or distributing our own original designs or materials.

1. It is unethical to copy an artist's work to sell without the artist's permission.
2. It is unethical to copy any work that has appeared in a magazine, book or website, and represent it in any venue as an original design.
3. It is unethical to teach a beading project that has appeared in a magazine, book or website without the artist's permission.
4. It is unethical to teach a beading project learned in another teacher's class without the teacher's permission.

If you agree, please help disseminate this message by including a copy of these statements with your class materials, your kits and the pieces you sell. The editors of Bead and Button Magazine