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Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 7 Dec 2000 15:23:30 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.general, Eric Joslin writes:
> > As I said before, good luck with that. I don't think you really can
> > "copyright" an arrangement of someone else's patented materials.
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> A HUGE point. It kind of reminds me of Duchamp's "ready-mades", or whatever
> -- the placement of a urinal in a museum as if he had sculpted it himself.
> Legos can be seen as a kind of medium, but it's a very dictatorial one at
> that...
OK, so _everything_ has no copywrite? Is this what you are trying to tell me?
That, because I only took something physical, and put it into a new
arrangement, like these Electrons in the computer, that I don't hold any rights
to exploit my work? Tell that to Microsoft, or to a iron foundry, or to a
farmer...or anyone else. I cannot patent the idea (at least not in the sense
of a patent on the bricks...not sure how it is differenciated worldwide), but I
can (and have) copywrite on the images, and the ideas/arrangements contained
within the images.
> In my own view, I PLAY with lego -- I do not consider it art with a capital
> "A". It is creative, and I do respect people's various creations -- BUT do
> let us keep perspective on what is going on here. PLAY -- not art, and
> certainly not your own personal commercial enterprise.
And why not? Define a Personal Commerical Enterprise? Is it not offering
something for sale? Regardless of who designed it?
James
(note, this is redirected into .debate, and no longer strictly about GoB, in
fact, I would like to disassociate this from GoB, because this is more a
.debate topic than a real topic at this point...)
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| (...) A HUGE point. It kind of reminds me of Duchamp's "ready-mades", or whatever -- the placement of a urinal in a museum as if he had sculpted it himself. Legos can be seen as a kind of medium, but it's a very dictatorial one at that... In my own (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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