Haha that's a great question, but no, there is actually a different set of companies selling patterns for sewing and knitting (traditionally to their target dem

Haha that's a great question, but no, there is actually a different set of companies selling patterns for sewing and knitting (traditionally to their target demographic of older ladies). Companies that typically sell patterns to places like Hobby Lobby or Michaels, this kind of thing, and not companies like Old Navy and Forever21 and the like. In that industry, patterns are sort of like patents in a way, and these companies have amassed huge libraries of patterns and aggressively defend them with litigation. I'll dig a bit to see if I can find information about the specific events I'm thinking of, but the gist of it was that alongside Napster I believe, one of the biggest and earliest instances of copyright/IP litigation was against little old ladies who were using P2P to fileshare sewing and knitting patterns. This was before the RIAA started suing customers, and I believe it actually partly served as the inspiration for the RIAA stupidly choosing to go that route. It's been some years since I've read the story, so I'm likely not remembering some details correctly. Edit: I can't find a link to the story I'm thinking of, but you can actually find some side effects of this litigation, for example this "copyright notice" (especially read the actual PDF as this notice was pretty clearly issued to protect the interests of these pattern companies I'm talking about): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/copyright-notice-knitting-and-sewing-patterns https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/copyright-notice-...