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Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone!
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lugnet.publish
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Sat, 12 Feb 2000 04:49:22 GMT
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lpieniazek@%StopSpam%novera.com
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.publish, Kevin Loch writes:
> > In lugnet.publish, Barbara Sproat writes:
> > > [...] Or how about allowing custom minifigs from the member to be
> > > displayed? [...]
> >
> > [...] otherwise there will be a large selection of figs to choose from.
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> Do you think this is safe (from a legal standpoint)? LEGO has already done
> this for members at the LEGO MINDSTORMS website.
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> We had planned to do this for LUGNET members, but then LEGO went and put
> their own minifig generator to use:
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> http://www.legomindstorms.com/members/index.asp?Userid=151
> http://www.legomindstorms.com/members/index.asp?Userid=154
> http://www.legomindstorms.com/members/index.asp?Userid=165
> http://www.legomindstorms.com/members/index.asp?Userid=168
> etc.
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> The reason it made us nervous when they did that is because it seems likely
> (or at least possible) that people at TLC could assume that they had thought
> up the idea first -- and that if we did it afterwards, that we must've stolen
> [sic] the idea. But the idea of an interactive minifig generator was first
> demonstrated on the net way back in 1997:
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> http://www.baseplate.com/toys/minifig/
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> So we've hesitated to incorporate things of that nature. (Which isn't to
> suggest that they'll never ever go in.)
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> Maybe we're just being overly cautious.
Lemme see if I get what you're saying. You guys thought of something
first, have clearly established prior art, and when TLC comes out with
the same idea, significantly after you do, you decide to not do it any
more because they might think you stole it from them?
Yes, you're being overly cautious.
IMHO.
--
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| (...) No, sorry, I forgot the other related concerns... What's above is probably only about 30-50% of it. One other thing was that it suddenly seemed a lot less unique and special after TLC went and did it, and we had always kinda wanted stuff on (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Do you think this is safe (from a legal standpoint)? LEGO has already done this for members at the LEGO MINDSTORMS website. We had planned to do this for LUGNET members, but then LEGO went and put their own minifig generator to use: (4 URLs) (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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