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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 20:39:41 GMT
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On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 01:27:15PM +0000, Leonardo Zide wrote:
> The Doctor What wrote:
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> > 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).
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.
> > 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.
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> 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.
It should not be an issue. Just spreading the source around to various
sites (not even necessarily in different countries) should suffice.
In case anyone didn't realize: I am **not** a lawyer.
Ciao!
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