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Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:56:22 GMT
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MATTDM@MATTDM.ORGsaynotospam
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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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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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