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Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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Date: 
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:56:22 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> the most appropriate ones for production runs.  Allowing the community en
> masse to choose the models through various filtering mechanisms would be an
> effective way to do this, at very little marginal cost to the company (big
> setup costs, of course).

This also -- to my non-laywer mind, of course -- partly reduces the legal
issue. If submitted designs are publically available on the web site for a
year or so before being considered for production, that seems like ample
time for the community to catch most instances of plagiarism.


--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Re: "If it were my toy company..."
 
(...) Maybe someday we'll see Larry's black hopper car. Wouldn't that rock?! :) The big legal hurdle there is indemnification against false representation. (Say some model creator steals a design from someone else and represents the design as (...) (27 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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