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| I will soon be adding some instructions to the Brick Instruction Portal that I will be offering for sale. It occurred to me that I'd need a suitable disclaimer. I checked on Bip and found their wasn't one so I thought if I post on Lugnet I can get a (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general)
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| (...) . . . (...) That's never going to work in the real world. It doesn't work for books, music, or videos, and it won't work for building instructions either. You need to come up with a way to make your product more desirable than a borrowed copy. (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst)
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| Steven lane wrote in message ... <snip disclaimer details> That all seems overly draconian to me (and I've been selling instructions for some years). The way I look at it, as long as someone is not making money off my instructions (copying and (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst)
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| (...) > (...) If you are selling instructions you should make _certain_ that they are correct. If you are giving instructions away for fun, then do you really need this kind of protection? (...) Wow, what a great, litigious world that we live in, (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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| (...) If the instructions are sold containing an error, then I agree that the author isn't accountable for buyers who purchase additional bricks from a separate source, but if the author is also selling the bricks to make the set, then the author is (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Mistakes will always occur, and the disclaimer is only meant for saleable instructions. (...) Well I didn't invent it, blame the lawyers. (...) I'm british, but I get your drift. (...) The disclaimer is supposed to be broad. If applied to very (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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| (...) It has to be clear and it has to be restritive to be of any use at all. If it lets people know where they stand and what they can and can't do I don't see how theirs a problem. (...) Some people are bound to stick to the rules. Maybe we should (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst)
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| (...) But only because the buyer has signed up to the terms of the disclaimer. (...) I only actually meant for the disclaimer to cover instructions. (...) Now your just being daft, and anyway these viewers cannot see the interior of the model. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Here is a "can disclaimer" that I use on all of my BIs. Note that I DO NOT SELL my BIs DISCLAIMER All content is provided as is, with no warranty stated or implied regarding the quality or accuracy of any content. All trademarks, service (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst, FTX)
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| (...) Sir, I was being daft long before this conversation began! 8^) Actually, I think my point is worth exploring. If I view your model and am able to reproduce it with a fair degree of accuracy, would you object if I sold it as my design? After (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Another idea is these 3 times scale or mini-scale MOCs that people are cerating of other sets--a good friend made a 3 times scale MOC of an original LEGO space set--can he sell the instructions to that? After all, it's not the original space (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Disclaimer text snipped That's brilliant. That's what I wanted all along. Can I use it? and can I add it to the Brick instruction Portal resource page? Steve (20 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst, FTX)
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| (...) Off course! You might have to edit it so that instead of using A&M LWorks it says something like "author". I think this version might help you and could be used by all on the BI portal. DISCLAIMER Definitions (a) "Author" means copyright owner (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst, FTX)
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| (...) Agreed. I'm not allowed to let anyone else borrow the instructions I bought (play with my toy)? Yeah, right. It's my toy...license be darned. "sub-assemblies cannot be copied and used in another set of instructions without the authors written (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst)
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| (...) Doesn't make it seem like a very good market, then: "Please spend your money on my product, but only if you don't share your toys with other people. Otherwise, the bricknazis(1) will demand you pay me more money." Sounds like fun. Not. (1) The (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Amen, brother. I can give the instructions to anyone I please after I buy them. Licensed instructions, indeed. Someone has been reading too many half-baked EULAs from Microsoft. (20 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst)
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| (...) I didn't mention the taking out of your company's name because it seemed so obvious. But you've saved me some work anyway with this version. (...) Disclaimer snipped again (...) I'm on it. (...) Well, I know that now!! Thanks Ahui :-) Steve (20 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst, FTX)
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