 | | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts —James Powell
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| | | (...) If you did this to one of my GoB sets, and I find out about it, I _will_ take you to small claims court. _I_ own the design, period. If you come up with something similar, fine. But, if you take from my design, and it is not enough different (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | (...) Really. So if I look at the Guild of Bricksmith page, and copy one of your designs, and place it in my living room, you're going to take me to court? Good luck not getting laughed at by the judge. You do realise that you have to prove some (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts —James Brown
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| | | | (...) Well, I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think you've got much of an argument here. As long as I credit the creator, and am not republishing or selling their work, then you're out of luck trying to sue me. If I build a model based on pictures of (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts —James Powell
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| | | | (...) That's like saying, as long as I credit the band who wrote the song, and don't sell the CD, I am not breaking copywrite when I copy a CD. It ain't so, and I think it is fairly plain to see that that is not so. As for the comment above, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts —James Powell
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| | | | | (...) (oops, missed a bit here, someone _else's_ CD that you are copying, not your own copy...here, at least, it is perfectly legal to make multi copies of a CD you own, but not any copies of one a friend of yours owns...) James Powell (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts —James Brown
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| | | | (...) Nope, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm probably not being clear enough. To mirror your analogy, I'm saying that as long as I credit the band who wrote the song, and don't try to sell or republish the song, I can sing the song myself, as (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts —Frank Filz
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| | | | | (...) At some level, you are correct, but there are definitely areas where you can run afoul of he law: - patents. There isn't any "fair use" type of clause for them - if you take a picture of your copy of someone else's MOC, and publish it, you may (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes: <snip> Hopefully this will blow over as I think we're mostly all saying about the same thing now. I missed the call to move to .debate just now but here is a response I put in to Lars Brandt (whose (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts —James Powell
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| | | | (...) For 99.99% of it, I do think we are on the same page. For that little .01%, I believe occasionally one might be forced to take a stand in the same way that the music industry does. James Powell, Bricksmith. (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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