Subject:
|
Re: Why TLG doesn't have a leg to stand on anymore.
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.cad.dev
|
Date:
|
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:27:15 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1422 times
|
| |
|
|
The Doctor What wrote:
>
> There are the PR problems that Mookie mentioned, but there is more than
> that. Lego has lost the IP rights in several countries (due to time).
> Further more, a US trademark law would only protect the actual "lego" on
> the studs, but not the studs themselves. Several countries take the lead
> of the world trademark agreement (which is rather US like), so other
> countries would be similar (I'm afraid that I can't remember the name of
> this...)
I thought that most countries have signed the same agreement about
copyright laws, making the laws the same almost everywhere (in about 200
countries at least).
> If the author's program is open source, or if the closed source is spread
> far enough around, then Lego will have little recourse. They can shut
> down the author, but many more pages will pop up. Giving no cost to the
> community, other than web-pages (cheap), while potentially costing Lego
> millions.
Or you could find a place that doesn't have copyright laws and put the
program there, in that case they wouldn't be able to do anything at all
to stop you.
Leonardo
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Why TLG doesn't have a leg to stand on anymore.
|
| (...) Copyright laws are pretty the much the same for the reasons you list, with a few exceptions. However, lego cad programs don't infringe on *any* copyrights, only Trademarks and (possibly, but not likely) intelectual property rights. (...) It (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Why TLG doesn't have a leg to stand on anymore.
|
| Despite the dire Subject line, I am only refering to good things for people who author "lego" software. There are the PR problems that Mookie mentioned, but there is more than that. Lego has lost the IP rights in several countries (due to time). (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
|
146 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
