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Re: Selling MOC Instructions? Your Thoughts?
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Date: 
Wed, 19 Dec 2001 01:51:42 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mike Stanley writes:
In lugnet.general, Allan Bedford writes:
In lugnet.general, William R. Ward writes:
"Sun Yun" <solasphere@yahoo.com> writes:
Has anybody ever sold just instructions for an MOC they'll built.

If so are there any legal ramifications of doing so, especially in the
context of using LDraw/MLcad to generate the images?

In general, no.  But in your case, I suspect there is a problem.  Not
with LDraw/MLcad, but with the fact that you are modeling a toy with
its own copyright and trademark issues.

I saw this paragraph and thought William was referring to LEGO as the 'toy'.
My mistake.

I don't think that Robotech toys or other products are currently being
produced, but *someone* owns the rights, and if they should happen to
find out about you, you could be the target of anything ranging from
cease-and-desist orders from their lawyer to a lawsuit.

I missed this paragraph somehow in my initial read.  Ooops.

Am I missing something, or did you misunderstand William and think that the
problem could be that Sun is using LEGO bricks to make his models?

Precisely.

My mistake entirely.  I apologize again.

Regards,
Allan B.



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(...) Could you explain how you see these two situations as being similar? If I understand what William says in his post he is saying there may be an issue with Sun making models of some sort of trademarked toy - Robotech. Meaning literally that (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)

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