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Subject: 
Re: Surely this is not legal
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Date: 
Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:11:36 GMT
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Richard Schamus <legoman34@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:G6G36G.1uB@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.lego.direct, Rose Regner writes:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=533115033

Please tell me this isn't legal.

Rose

It probably isn't illegal. It's just not very smart, especially for the
person(s) buying the item. Considering that most of the instruction are
available from www.brickshelf.com and, (I'm only speculating here and am not
in possession of any information that directly confirms or denies this
speculation,) that it would be easy enough to mine Brickshelf for the images
used in the item described. Just a thought.

It doesn't look legal to me - the reason being the prominent LEGO logo displayed
with their 'Just Imagine...' trademark on the top, acting like it was something
officially put out by them.  There is no disclaimer except the fairplay mention
at the bottom stating that all the sets are out of production.  Pretty shady
IMO.

-Tim



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  Re: Surely this is not legal
 
(...) I looks like some <insert pejorative here> has simply made a CD of BrickShelf. I say take let the eBay and TLC lawyer types growl in his(her?) direction. If that doesn't work, then take the muzzles off and let 'em loose. SRC Nothing (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
  Re: Surely this is not legal
 
(...) That COULD be illegal.... but... As far as I know, I can host a big image of Lego on my server and even put a disclaimer that says "This IS an official Lego site", and there'd be nothing illegal about it... Lego might not like it and they may (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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  Re: Surely this is not legal
 
(...) It probably isn't illegal. It's just not very smart, especially for the person(s) buying the item. Considering that most of the instruction are available from www.brickshelf.com and, (I'm only speculating here and am not in possession of any (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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