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Re: Legal to sell "reverse engineered" copies of LEGO stickers?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:48:52 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:

<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.

I recall hearing once that the 'copy' has to be at least 15% different to not be
considerd plagiarism.

Allister



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  Legal to sell "reverse engineered" copies of LEGO stickers?
 
Is it legal to sell "reverse engineered" copies of LEGO stickers? Such as here: (URL) 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. (16 years ago, 24-Jul-08, to lugnet.general)

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