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Can we get some clarification on your IP, what's off limints and what isn't?
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Fri, 10 Dec 1999 23:02:23 GMT
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lpieniazek@NOSPAMnovera.com
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Dear LEGO
Right now there is a bit of a brouhaha brewing about Y2K information.
Bad feelings are rising and tempers are fraying.
It would be helpful if you would formally reply as to what your position
on stuff that can be found on your website is. Someone is in danger of
having their LUGNET posting privileges yanked because they were able to
find images on your website that have some 2K information.
Here are a few questions
- Is it your position that only images that can be navigated to using a
series of clicks starting at www.lego.com are to be viewable, and
whether or not an image is on your public website is irrelevant?
- Is it your position that if an image was reachable that way in the
past, but no longer is, that it is not to be viewable?
- Fairplay says that images of catalog items are OK for fannish
noncommercial use. If something was saved by one of us because it WAS
publicly viewable, but now isn't, isn't it of historical value? (for
example, images of the 1999 sets several years in the future would not
be on your site any more because they will no longer be available. But
having these in the Lugnet database will be invaluable)
- Why do your web developers use a "public side of the firewall" server
for staging? This is just asking for trouble. That one really has my
scratching my head. It's bad IP law practice as it erodes your rights in
most jurisdictions.
It would also be helpful if you would formally clarify what your
position on retailer catalogs are.
- IS a retailer catalog OK to be viewed by the public? If it is, WHEN is
it? before the sets are generally available (almost certainly not!)
While the sets are available (maybe a good idea, maybe not) Several
years after they go out of production (excellent for research purposes
and I'd encourage it)
Thanks.
--
Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com http://my.voyager.net/lar
- - - Web Application Integration! http://www.novera.com
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NOTE: Soon to be lpieniazek@tsisoft.com :-)
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