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Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 22:08:55 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Kevin Salm writes:
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> > As I understand the trademark system to operate, anyone can produce pieces
> > identical to Lego and even sell them in arrangements (sets) identical to Lego
> > but the Dalu and Daluland logos are clearly overstepping the Lego image
> > trademark.
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> Well, that's assuming that the trademark/copyright system is enforced
> everywhere. There are doubtlessly some countries where there aren't such laws
> (for example the game Starcraft's CD's were copied and re-sold by another
> company in another country (Indonesia I think? Somewhere out there..) and
> there was no law against it, since whatever country it was didn't recognize
> Blizzard's copyright to the software) It could be that back in the mid-late
> 80's in Saudi Arabia, there weren't any recognized copyright/patent laws
> governing Lego, and so it was easy to come in and make a clone...
Most likely Taiwan. I know they do not support International Copyright Law. I
have some CDs I purchased before I knew of this that are rip-offs. They were
made by a company called Son May, which copies Anime and Video Game Soundtracks
and markets them. I believe Video copying is big business there, too.
Jeff
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| (...) I agree with you here- they don't really look rounded to me-- the shadows from the upper overhang make it look pretty flat. (...) I'm wondering on this one... suppose you bought a lego set-- how much would it be to make something like a sand (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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