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Re: Why TLG doesn't have a leg to stand on anymore.
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:43:44 GMT
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Leonardo Zide wrote in message <37B811B3.16EA370B@centroin.com.br>...
> 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...)
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> 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).
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> > 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.
Reminds of hearing that all windows -emulation projects (like WINE) should
be moved to australia because you are allowed to reverse engineer there.
>
> Leonardo
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