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> Hopefully by late next week, I'll be making some into keychains and engraving
> them. Enjoy!
> --Bram
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Not to be a wet blanket or anything, but how does LEGO allow you to do this?
If I'm getting your website correctly, you are making 2X4s that look just like
LEGO 2x4's, except they're metal, and they don't fit like LEGO bricks. And
you're charging money. How is this not copyright infringement? Wouldn't this
product compete with a LEGO product, should they ever decide to make metal
bricks? Isn't the 2X4 one of LEGO's trademarks?
Given the state of rapid prototyping and CNC machines out there, you could make
a whole bunch of "almost-LEGO" parts like yours fairly easily. I had always
assumed that no one would try, fearing a lawsuit.
Darrell Urbien
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| He gets away with it the same way that MegaBloks gets away with it. The patents for the basic bricks are long since expired. Troy "Darrell Urbien" <durbien@mail.occ.cccd.edu> wrote in message news:Gx609q.M6C@lugnet.com... (...) engraving (...) this? (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) :: the usual "I am not a lawyer" bit here:: The point is that these aluminum bricks are merely similar, and not exactly like lego bricks. In law, tiny details matter a lot. Even the tiniest differences can render something unique under the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) To answer your question, Lego DID make a metal 2x4 brick made out of silver and sold them as keychains. They came out about 2 years ago at the Imaginarium Centers (this one located in Minnesota, Mall of America). I do find it funny that I used (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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