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Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Fri, 17 Dec 1999 22:11:18 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.STOPSPAMMERSorg
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James Brown <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote:
> I agree with you in principle, but I think you're making too much out of
> this. LEGO is not the first company to claim more copyright protection
> than they may be entitled to, or can enforce, and they also won't be the
> last. It is, in fact, quite common for a company to define 'grey areas' as
> black (or white) simply to avoid the headache involved in defining them
> legally (and the other ways, too).
Possibly true. But:
1) I don't want to see people kicked off of LUGnet over it.
2) More importantly, by tacitly allowing claims like this, we lose our
freedoms. I know, that sounds melodramatic. But: the "you have to go through
our front page!" concept is dearly loved by old-media corporations who would
like to turn the Internet into Just More Television. The Net may not always
live up to the idealistic promise of giving a voice to the voiceless, but
policies like this one set the stage for making it impossible.
I hate to see things get off to a bad start here. So I sincerely hope Lego
reconsiders.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) <snipped bulk of well-thought out post> I agree with you in principle, but I think you're making too much out of this. LEGO is not the first company to claim more copyright protection than they may be entitled to, or can enforce, and they also (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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