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Re: Legal to sell "reverse engineered" copies of LEGO stickers?
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:38:37 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jeffrey Findley wrote:
> Is it legal to sell "reverse engineered" copies of LEGO stickers? Such as here:
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> <http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=Onideus>
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> 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.
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 still seems like it would be a copy of the original.
I'd be curious to hear the lawyer's arguments though.
-Elroy
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