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Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 7 Dec 2000 14:40:52 GMT
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In lugnet.general, James Powell writes:
> But, if I see something that bears a _striking_ resemblance to the
> _entirety of my work_, I am going to rase a stink.
As I said before, good luck with that. I don't think you really can
"copyright" an arrangement of someone else's patented materials. Let's keep
that in mind here, folks: we are *not* talking about music. Music is a
naturally occuring thing. LEGO doesn't spontaneously develop when you tune a
guitar correctly.
I say again, if I see something I like, I'll build it. If that means I see
something I like on the Guild of Bricksmiths site, and realise I have the
pieces to build it myself, I'll do so. I probably won't post pictures of it to
Lugnet (which is something I only do when I put something together I feel is
particularly cool), but I'll build it and play with it to my heart's content.
I *do* agree that someone dissecting your instructions, creating them as a
document and selling that document is wrong. But I think you're taking this
about three steps beyond the point of ridiculousness.
Actually, I'd be interested in hearing from the other members of the GoB on
their take on all of this.
eric
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) (URL) an official GoB statement, just my opinion. I can dig up where I said the same thing some time ago if you think it's helpful... For those that want to give a go to copying my work for their own enjoyment, there's lots of info at the (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Are you saying you would not post the pictures as you want to keep your copying antics secret, or because we’d not be interested? (...) The only problem I have with people copyrighting their own designs is that we have all most all benefited (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Eh? Copyright does equal patent; they're two separate animals. Go take a picture with a camera. Is that photo Kodak's (or Fuji's in my case) now? Or Nikon's? Both the camera and the film are patented... Same with painting a picture. Betcha the (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) A HUGE point. It kind of reminds me of Duchamp's "ready-mades", or whatever -- the placement of a urinal in a museum as if he had sculpted it himself. Legos can be seen as a kind of medium, but it's a very dictatorial one at that... In my own (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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| (...) As long as you are not looking at a photo of my (for sale) work when you sit down to build it, I don't care. Go ahead and copy the ideas from my skyscraper, or my (very old) sketches of the RPO (you'd have to _dig_ to find a copy, but it is (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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