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Re: Stolen picture in Lego Theme Gallery?
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Date: 
Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:50:47 GMT
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"Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message
news:FyBBnn.IMr@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.general, Tamyra Teed writes:
Actually, it looks like there are 4 stolen... Unless Scott Schuricht is
5 years old and from Vietnam, and put a (c) 1995 in his picture's upper
left corner :( guess he built it in the womb????

I'm sorry but this is actually getting quite humorous.  How long do you • think
the LEGO folks actually look at the pictures before they get put up for • voting?
I mean really this one takes the cake.

Obviously the folks at LEGO really don't care too much about this little
contest no matter what they put in their disclaimer.


This provides a pretty clear case that they didn't even apply "due
dillegence" to avoid copyright infringement.  I think they should have to
send $10 LSAH coupons to anyone whose copyrights are violated by their
contest.

-John Van



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Stolen picture in Lego Theme Gallery?
 
Can an assembly of LEGO bricks (ie a model) be copyrighted? Or is it the photo of the model that can be copyrighted? (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Stolen picture in Lego Theme Gallery?
 
(...) That would be a good incentive to get someone to violate your copyright, man.:) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Stolen picture in Lego Theme Gallery?
 
(...) I'm sorry but this is actually getting quite humorous. How long do you think the LEGO folks actually look at the pictures before they get put up for voting? I mean really this one takes the cake. Obviously the folks at LEGO really don't care (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)

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