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Re: Selling someone else's work on Ebay
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:12:11 GMT
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"meenkee" <meenkee@cox.net> wrote in message news:IDrn12.21Fs@lugnet.com...
> Out of curiousity, a couple times a month I search Ebay, looking for • people
> selling LEGO creations of mine. Sadly, I often come across one or two a • month.
> These people either claim it as their own, or make no mention that they • copied
> the instructions from my website. If I wanted to, I could make them and • sell
> them to make money. That's not the point, it's the principle of the • thing...
> copying someone else's work and representing it as their own. This month, • a
> particularly irritating one came up on Ebay. Some one is selling the • Globe I
> created instructions for:
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> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=40018>
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> As you can see from the folder, many people have used my instructions to • create
> a Globe of their own. That's why I did all that work in the first place. • I
> could've just created mine and no more but I did a LOT of work and created
> instructions. I did this to make my own contribution to the AFOL • community.
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> Here's the irritating auction:
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<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1186&item=5963673227
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> Please compare this person's pictures to the pictures in my Globe folder. • Do
> you see any similarities? To my eyes, it is an exact duplicate. I • emailed the
> seller and got this response: "First of all, your methodology for • assuming it
> is your work seems a bit hasty. For instance, many different DVD players • are on
> the market, but they weren't all designed by the same person." Later, he • says,
> "If you have evidence that my work is yours and you can proove some type • of
> copyright infringement, have your lawyer serve papers to that effect. You • will
> also incur any of my legal fees if your case is lost." Things go downhill • from
> there. I had emailed the seller to ask that he add information to the • auction,
> that it was my creation and to post my website. I have got nothing but • rude
> emails and long explanations about how it is a coincidence that his globe • looks
> like mine. The most irritating thing about this, is that this isn't just • a
> nobody copying my work, as is usually the case, this is a fellow AFOL. He • is
> "tiltawhirl". I won't mention his real name. Here's his MOC page and
> Brickshelf gallery:
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> <http://www.mocpages.com/home.php/231>
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> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=Bolliger>
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> I have people copying my work quite regularly, but to have a fellow AFOL • do it,
> and then to get an email with a 'prove it!' 'it's a coincidence that it • looks
> the same!' and other rude comments like "Wrap your head around that!"... • ugh. I
> am just disappointed and disgusted to get that kind of treatment from • someone in
> the AFOL community. I have sent private emails to this person with no
> resolution, so I wanted to turn to the community to get some advice. What
> should AFOL's do when their work is being blatantly copied and sold? • Sitting
> back and doing nothing doesn't seem to be the answer.
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> Corey Sanders
> <www.brickitgood.com>
Just give the bidders the link to your Brickshelf folder and let them make
up their own minds.
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