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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Brian Kasprzyk writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Darrell Urbien writes:
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> > > 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>
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 you have "LEGO" in the website at all, you MUST disclose that you are
not affiliated with the Lego Company at all
C) IF you are using "LEGO" name for for profit ventures, you will probably
have to get their permission, just like copy-write usage.
so brickguild.com would be acceptible, legochain.com would not.
Benjamin Medinets
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| (...) Darn, I am no expert ( DIANE ), but the BrickGuild and the BrickSmiths "get away with it" the same way that the used CD market and book market "gets away with it." The courts have some what determined that the re-sale of items by licensed (...) (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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