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To Jake McKee or somebody else who can speak on behalf of TLC:
After the presentation of my webpage www.lego.bugge.com, I’ve received a lot
of warnings against legal problems with TLC based on the Fair Play Policy.
A search on the subject here on lugnet hasn’tofficial statement from
TLC-affiliated people that can shed light on the question; the only place I’ve
seen subdomains mentioned is in a post by Tobbe Arnesson
http://news.lugnet.com/modelteam/?n=953 claiming that using lego in subdomains
is illegal based on the Fair Play Policy which, however, doesn’t mention anything about subdomains,
only domains:
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The LEGO Trademark cannot be used in an Internet Address
The LEGO trademark should not be incorporated into an Internet address.
Internet addresses have become useful tools for people to identify the source
of a homepage. Using “LEGO” in the domain name would be creating the
misleading impression that the LEGO Group sponsored the homepage.
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Frankly I would be really surprised if TLC should show any interest in
interfering with what a private person decides to do with his legally bought
domain name (without lego), with a reference to avoid “creating the misleading
impression that the LEGO Group sponsored the homepage”, as a subdomain such as
mine only can be considered ‘sponsored’ by the owner of www.bugge.com and
therefore clearly family business.
I might be wrong, but I really like the address and I’ve spend many, many hours
creating nedstatcounters for all pages, and I wouldn’t like to throw all that
work away based on hearsay. So what I’d really like to have is an official
statement settling the matter (and if it’s illegal, an explanation why): Because
until I know if the address is ok, I can’t really advertise the page on the
internet or upload new parts (with reference to the newest emailaddress shown on
the webpage) to the Ldraw PT as this would only make it even more difficult to
move the page to another address (like l3go.bugge.com).
So basically I’m stuck until this question is settled.
-NB
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| Hi, (...) Sure enough. I think that your Page violates the Fair Play Policy. (...) Well. What do you think is www.lego.bugge.com? I think it is an internet address. Can you tell me, how the normal, fairly computer literate surfer or a kid searching (...) (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) Yes, using the word "LEGO" anywhere in the domain or sub-domain is a no-no. It's the full Internet address as you quote from the Fair Play, not just the root domain. Confusion about ownership of the site can still result even if "LEGO" is in (...) (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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