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Subject: 
Re: Fansploitation
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Fri, 5 Jan 2001 21:58:10 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Lester Witter writes:

> I think the issue with TLG may be litigation avoidance. If LEGO receives a
> bunch of ideas and designs but does not obtain the rights then they must check
> every new design they market against the entries to insure that there is no
> similarities. Even if their internal desgn group never looked at the contest
> entries and developed something independnetly, the fact that they
> recieved something simiar could be a problem.

Good point. Combining subthreads... would a non exclusive royalty free
license granted at entry solve that problem? IANAL so I am just guessing
wildly but I think it might.

I have to reiterate my opinion that I feel the disparagement of this contest
is a bit overblown, and I regret I may have fueled it a bit myself.

++Lar



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(...) big (...) fine (...) to (...) I think the issue with TLG may be litigation avoidance. If LEGO receives a bunch of ideas and designs but does not obtain the rights then they must check every new design they market against the entries to insure (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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