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Subject:	Legal to sell "reverse engineered" copies of LEGO stickers?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general
Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:31:21 GMT
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Is it legal to sell "reverse engineered" copies of LEGO stickers? Such as here: <http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=Onideus> This guy is claiming that because they're "reverse engineered" from the originals that they're not "copies" and are therefore exempt from copyright protection.

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		Re: Legal to sell "reverse engineered" copies of LEGO stickers?
(...) I'm not sure it's even physically possible to reverse engineer an image. He could reverse engineer the process used to produce the stickers, but the images themselves can't be taken apart. Even if he's hand drawing each image line by line, it (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jul-08, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Legal to sell "reverse engineered" copies of LEGO stickers?
(...) I recall hearing once that the 'copy' has to be at least 15% different to not be considerd plagiarism. Allister (16 years ago, 25-Jul-08, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Legal to sell "reverse engineered" copies of LEGO stickers?
(...) That guy who calls himself "Onideus" on BrickLink is Matthew Moulton. Enough said. Adr. (16 years ago, 25-Jul-08, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Legal to sell "reverse engineered" copies of LEGO stickers?
(...) I have used vector graphics to replicate logos on occasion, and the nature of the process may give some insight into the legality of this. Say we're duplicating a logo: first, an image or scan of the logo is imported into the vector graphics (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jul-08, to lugnet.general)

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