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Re: Bionicle
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Mon, 4 Jun 2001 12:12:06 GMT
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"James Stacey" <James@minifig.co.uk> wrote in message
news:GEEF5u.BJu@lugnet.com...
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> My Bro' in law was telling me he had read somewhere about TLC getting sued
> by some tribespeople somewhere for using their sacred tribal names for the
> bionicle range. Has anyone else heard anything about this or is it a bunch
> of schwa
Old news, that keeps coming up every couple of days
For example the following from Friday.
> "Scott A" <eh105jb@mx1.pair.com> wrote in message
> news:GE8vuy.6tB@lugnet.com...
> I am not sure if this is old news, but is made it into the Guardian • yesterday:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4195290,00.html
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> And for those who like to see it in good ol' black and white:
> http://www154.pair.com/eh105jb/Maoris_v_bionicle.jpg
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> Scott A
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> Yes, old news
> http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=29495
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> http://news.lugnet.com/technic/bionicle/?n=532
> which has the same links, and also asks if it is old news!
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> regards
> lawrence
As I understand it, Lego have not copyrighted the names, so there is nothing
to sue over.
The thread in general above has a good discussion on the subject
regards
lawrence
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