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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Darrell Urbien writes:
> >
> > Hopefully by late next week, I'll be making some into keychains and engraving
> > them. Enjoy!
> > --Bram
> >
> >
> 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
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 the word 'Lego' in a web site domain and
within 2 weeks, received an email from them condemning the use of their name
in my domain. Yet, the Guild of Bricksmiths creates sets, instructions and
boxes mimicking Lego products (even using their own bricks) and then sell
them for exorbitant amounts of money. How do they get away with it without
Lego coming down on them? Only Lego has the answer to that question.
Especially considering they even turned one into their own set in the "My
Own Creations" line.
FYI!!!! This is not an attack on The Guild, it is merely a statement of
speculation.
BK>
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| (...) I'm not a lawyer, nor am I defending the beliefs of the guild. But I do know a bit about the Lego "Fair Use Policy". Some of the things in it... A) DON'T use "LEGO" in your domain name.....big "no-no" (anything with brick is acceptable). B) IF (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
| | | Re: Solid Aluminum 2x4 Bricks!
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| (...) This is what I was puzzled about. I thought they'd be particularly interested in the Aluminum brick keychains because they have a product just like it. So if no one seems to have a problem with making copies, why doesn't anyone make clones of (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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