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Re: Disclaimer
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lugnet.inst
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Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:01:32 GMT
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In lugnet.inst, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.inst, Steven Lane wrote:
> > 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 consensus of
> > idea's. I've already contacted Jake from Bip and he say's he'll add
> > it to the resource section for everyone's use so you wouldn't just
> > be helping me, it's now a community project.
> >
> > Here are my current idea's . . .
> > The buyer cannot lend his instructions to anyone.
> >
> > The buyer cannot let anyone else use the instructions unless they
> > are helping to build the model for the instruction owner either
> > wholly or in part.
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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. One possible way is to sell it with
> the bricks. Then people too lazy to track them all down will buy
> the whole package.
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> If you look around at what others are selling, it appears that kits
> and CDs with bundles of instructions seem to work.
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> Good luck,
>
> Don
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.
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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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