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Re: Parts license
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Mon, 25 Sep 2000 21:10:08 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> When it comes down to it, the LEGO Company holds the IP rights to all these
> measurements and patterns and ideas. We part authors have *no* right to
> any of these numbers. We can and do have copyright on their expression, in
> the part files we create.
I think we have a little latitude, since TYCO, MegaBloks, Block-Men, and
others have produced actual bricks of nearly identical dimensions as LEGO. It
seems to me that if an actual product can be produced with such close
similarity, a virtual representation must be all the more acceptable.
I grant you, for some of the more exotic parts this might not be an option,
but the 2x4 brick is in no danger of being declared off-limits.
Dave!
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| (...) This is a good point, and I agree with it. I don't know if it has anything to do with copyright or not. (...) As I understand it (and IANAL), 'copyright' applies to the expression of ideas. So you can hold copyright on a file, which prevents (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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