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Re: The Official "Issues List"
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lugnet.ambassadors
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Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:27:03 GMT
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In lugnet.ambassadors, David Laswell wrote:
> As for the copyright, you do raise an interesting point, except for the fact
> that unlike patents and trademarks, copyright is an assumed status from the day
> you make something. In other words, you do not need to ever tag your images
> "Copyright Me, Ca. This Year" in order to go after someone for swiping a copy
> and using it in a manner that you are not comfortable with. Likewise, The LEGO
> Company does not have to have the correct year listed for them to go after
> someone for blatantly ripping off their set design. Their copyright is assumed
> for the sets, though they still have to patent the brick shapes in order to
> defend them.
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> And this part is not in reply to anything specific that you wrote, but more a
> general response to the large number of people who have asked this same question
> in the last few hours, but as strange as this may sound, Mega-Bloks is probably
> not TLC's primary concern on the whole secrecy of upcoming sets aspect. They
> are a legitimate company and therefore probably do not have turnaround time that
> is significantly faster than TLC's. China is the big issue here, where they
> can, and have, shown up to the local equivalent of NY Toy Fair and found
> fly-by-night companies showing off _exact_ copies of their own sets (usually
> older sets, not the same ones they're showing off at their own booth). These
> are the sort of companies that could conceivably scout out an image of upcoming
> sets and manage to cobble together a rough approximation and release it _before_
> the real thing hits the street.
Then LEGO needs to take a number and get in line behind the large software
companies, motion picture associations, and recording industry associations of
the world. Many Asian countries are notorious for rampant piracy because it's
not combated by the respective governments.
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| (...) The release dates on LEGO sets are not strict dates like they are with DVD releases. They're more like guidelines. Make sure your production runs coincide with whichever sets are due up next, so you can release them more or less in order. And (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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