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Re: Use of LEGO on album cover... legal or no?
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:38:28 GMT
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"The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith" <thereverend@thereverend.com> wrote in
message news:G9AHry.Fny@lugnet.com...
> Hi there.
>
> I'm in a band named The Human Heads. For our recently completed album, we
> would like to use a photo I took of a LEGO creation I made. You can see • the
> album cover itself and other photos of the structure on my Brickshelf • account:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3479
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> We're selling our CD through mp3.com, but when we tried to use this as our
> album cover, they rejected it without explanation. After a month of • trying
> to get an answer out of them as to why exactly it was rejected, we were
> finally told that it was because "you can't use LEGO without their • permission".
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> I'm wondering if fellow LUGNETers would know whether or not this is true,
> and just what the legality of the situation is. Does LEGO have rights to
> every photo of every LEGO creation ever taken?
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> By anaolgy, if we wanted to use a photo of a brick wall (as in brick and
> mortar) would we have to likewise get the permission of the company that
> made those bricks?
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> I've tried researching similar cases on the net, and did find a band who
> claimed that LEGO had told them not to use their LEGO album cover. By
> contrast, you might also recall the band Sneaker Pimps had a CD single for
> the song "6 Underground" a few years back which was basically just a photo
> of a LEGO crater base plate.
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> I searched the LUGNET archives to see if this topic had been discussed
> before and while I did find a few similar cases (selling T-shirts with
> photos of MOCs, for example), there was nothing that addressed this issue
> directly.
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> I've also been reading up on copyright laws with books from the library, • but
> again, I haven't been able to find anything conclusive one way or the • other
> about this issue specifically.
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> Finally, if we were to seek permission from LEGO, does anyone know who • would
> be the appropriate person to contact? And what do you think they'd say, • if
> anything?
I think the way Sneaker Pimps got away with it is that very few people know
that the cover was actually a Lego piece.
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