Tutorial ethics conundrum
A little while ago, there was a free tutorial offered on this site by a member - you just had to email them to get it. Now this is fine, but once I read the tutorial, I realized that I had seen a YouTube video showing this exact technique a couple of weeks earlier. Getting to the bottom of the tutorial, the author had written that no one was allowed to sell anything made using that tutorial.
How does this make sense? I am not making that kind of item at this time, and am not good enough to sell anything yet, but if I was, this tutorial writer has essentially claimed this well-known technique as their own, and might want to come after me if I did sell those items.
Is this right? How could it possibly be ethical on the part of the author? Can I not make those items if I ever wanted to, now?
Edited to clarify - this IS a well-known technique that has been in existence for years, and I have seen general threads on this board for show and tell on the style.
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