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Re: Torso stickers
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lugnet.castle
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Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:42:36 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Joel Jacobsen writes:
Okay, I just caught up with what's going on here (I'm on west coast time).
This is Jimmy - I started this thread on professionally making torso
stickers. I also happen to be a lawyer and I took every intellectual
property class that Berkeley law offered except for one.
Now that aside, to calm some fears I can positively say that what we are
currently proposing is not illegal in any way. Heck, personally I think
they would support it, as it does nothing but increase their sales.
> Does anyone know what ramaficiations this is going to have if we all start
> scanning what I have to suspect are designs that are encompased by the TLG's
> copyrights for the Castle line and then go about charging(2) for them?
Well, even if they really, really, really wanted to stop us, Lego would
never be able to prove that we aren't using these stickers on Megablocks or
our own paper dolls. Custom made stickers are just generic, personal
creations. Lego has nothing to do with them.
> == What would the ramafications be for "altering" a TLG design - changing
> colors or editing out bits we don't like to make a torso 'better'..?
Here, I think we would be technically commiting a violation. What would
Lego do about it? Simple: a cease and desist letter. Said letter would
probably cost them a few hundred dollars, so they realistically would not
even bother. And if they were to bother, who would get the blame? Me and
only me. I started the idea, I paid the printer to get it done, and I was
distributing them. But again, I'm positive we are making a mountain out of
a molecule with the fear that Lego would do something.
> == There isn't likely to be a problem for original art, because we're just
> making sheets of stickers that conform to the shape of torsos and shields,
> which isn't any different than the knock-off companies making toys with the
> same lug spacing and minifig size, etc.
Yes, you are correct. No problem.
> I can afford a few bucks for a sheet of stickers. I can afford to buy labels
> and mire through printing them and cutting them out one at a time on my own.
> I can't afford to have TLG knocking on my door because I've gone and done
> something bad in their eyes - and I don't think anyone here wants to do this
> to upset TLG - only to make Castle a whole lot more fun.
Again, just to assure you and everybody else, I'm the only one at risk here.
> I recall some people over in .pirates have made custom sails. I don't recall
> the details precisely, but I believe there was hesitation to charge for
> them, because of this very concern.
Frankly, I've seen this sort of stuff happen on the internet all the time,
where people don't know the law, so they overreact on the safe side. As a
lawyer, I know how ridiculously paranoid it all sounds, but I do understand
that if I didn't go to law school, I might have reacted the same way.
Jimmy
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| In lugnet.castle, Jimmy Park writes: <snipped> (...) This is a really interesting idea; having read through all of the thread as it stands right now, I have a few questions/reservations that come to mind(1) -- == Scanning torsos/shields to print out (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle)
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