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Re: Can we help?
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lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Mon, 1 Nov 2004 23:53:13 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, David Laswell wrote:
They've got a good team, but let's not kid ourselves and pretend that just
because they can get ripoffs kicked out of a toy show and confiscate the samples
that they are actually preventing all of those companies from selling those same
products.  I mean, it's China.  The market won't fully support the sale of
authentic LEGO product, so there are always going to be cheap ripoffs available,
whether the business dealings take place openly or in backroom deals.

I guess the point I was trying to make is that if TLG moved production to China,
they would be spending more resources on combating theft of intellectual
property than what they are currently used to.  I am not an economics major, but
moving to China just to lower production costs might be such a good idea once
they consider how much easier it would be to have their work "pirated".

-Bryan



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  Re: Can we help?
 
(...) Already happens. Sometimes people get unauthorized access to dealer catalogs (those which local stores use to order stock from), and other times people sneak photos at early toy shows that are not supposed to be open to the press (like the one (...) (20 years ago, 1-Nov-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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