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Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 6 Dec 2000 22:15:42 GMT
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> But if I sit down to build something in my living room, Persons A-C can go
> #$@! themselves. None of them get a say in what I build, or how I came upon
> the idea of building it.
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> eric
As long as you are not looking at a photo of my (for sale) work when you sit
down to build it, I don't care. Go ahead and copy the ideas from my
skyscraper, or my (very old) sketches of the RPO (you'd have to _dig_ to find a
copy, but it is released). I _don't care_ if you copy them. Copy _ideas_ from
my 'sets', if you want to. If you think my door arangement is neat, fine, copy
it. But, if I see something that bears a _striking_ resemblance to the
_entirety of my work_, I am going to rase a stink.
If you think I don't _know_ that my work owes bits to others, then fine...I
know that there are other trainheads who I have pinched ideas from. However,
in the same vein, I know others have pinched ideas from me, and I am _not_
worried about someone taking ideas from my models. I just want my IP to be
respected _with regards to something I sell_. Is there something wrong with
wanting the letter of the law to be obeyed?
James Powell, Bricksmith
http://www.brickbay.com/store.asp?p=JamesP
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) As I said before, good luck with that. I don't think you really can "copyright" an arrangement of someone else's patented materials. Let's keep that in mind here, folks: we are *not* talking about music. Music is a naturally occuring thing. (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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| (...) James, This is the most absurd position I have ever heard. You would get upset with me if I saw one of your models on the Internet and tried to build it myself with my own lego bricks, in my own room? I don't think Lego would particularly care (...) (23 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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| (...) I can make a copy of your work, looking at your photo or not, but that's about as far as it goes. I cannot sell a copy of your work. I cannot obtain an illegally duplicated copy of your instructions on how to build your work. I cannot publish (...) (23 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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| If somebody can sell an exact copy of a official lego sets, using the bricks from other sets, as "without box and instructions", I think anybody also can reproduce and sell all of the models around the net, including GOB sets as "without (...) (23 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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| (...) If that were what he was saying, I wouldn't care- in fact, I would agree with him. But it's not, and his response to me bears that out. (...) That's great for them. I really don't have a problem with these guys selling the sets, especially (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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