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Re: Questions About Selling Custom Model Instructions: Confirming LEGO/LDraw Consent
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:05:01 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Daniel Siskind wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Jim DeVona wrote:
> > "Commercial sale of instruction images rendered from LDraw models does not
> > violate the CA." True or false? Discussion?
> >
> > Jim
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> Such a rule about the using images generated from Ldraw would be impossible to
> enforce even if it did exist. That would be like Microsoft claiming ownership of
> every document made with MS Office or a paint company saying that they own the
> end results of any pictures created with their product. Redistributing an image
> created using a product is VERY DIFFERENT than redistributing the actual
> product. As long as you are using image files then you are OK.
That makes sense to me. I was careful to ask because of how vigorously the
opposing point was argued in that discussion - by some LDraw committee members,
no less.
> As for custom models being "lucrative" I think you may want to research this a
> bit more. Yes money does exchange hands, but no one is getting rich doing them!
I wrote that in jest. (What, you mean you're not rolling in gold doubloons?!)
Your Brickmania site is very professional, by the way - and one of the
precedents I had in mind when I broached this subject.
Jim
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