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Re: Legal to sell "reverse engineered" copies of LEGO stickers?
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:56:38 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Elroy Davis wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
I'm not sure they'll be able to stop laughing at the idea long enough to make
any arguments. But I could be wrong.
Cheers
Richie Dulin
CO Legeaux
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