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Re: Official model repository situation
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:41:37 GMT
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Todd:
> [disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.]
> You're allowed to take and publish your own photos of
> the sets you build. A .DAT file representation is much
> more like a photo of a set than the original building
> instruction booklet, especially since you can take the
> DAT representation and render it in POV-Ray and have it
> come out almost like a photo. Note that you can't go
> from a .DAT file representation back to the original
> building instruction booklets like you can with a JPEG
> file scan of the copyrighted material.
I think this is where our way of looking at things diverge.
Assuming that somebody wrote this MPD-to-PostScript
translater I asked for a few weeks ago we could get quite a
bit closer to an automated transformation of a LDraw file
into high-quality printed building instructions.
But at the moment I agree that a LDraw file is far from
being equivalent to the printed building instructions LEGO
distributes with their sets.
> [disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this message does not contain legal
> advice.]
Play well,
Jacob
--
"Any, sufficiently advanced, technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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| [disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.] (...) Well, I think it's tempting to look at it as a transformation when it's actually reverse-engineering. (...) If an artist hand-painted extremely detailed step-by-step instructions on how to build the model -- (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| [disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.] (...) Ahh, but it's nothing at all like the original work. You're not even translating the copyrighted building instruction booklet. You use the building instruction booklet to build the model, then you disassemble (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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