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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, James Powell writes:
> Well, I hardly think they can sue you for making your own creation that fits
> in with lego. After all, how many other things have a dia of (xxx) to fit
> into the lego hands. Taking existing parts and modifying them _should_ also
> be legal, since you are not using anything other than the stud spacing (or at
> least, you are doing serious modification to them, and mostly use them for
> stud spacing.
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> I really don't know all the issues involved here, but it is not very often
> worht a companys time to track down someone doing it for fun and not for
> profit.
>
> James Powell
True enough, you can do what you like on your own time in your own space. But
you see if I'm making battleaxes or blaster rifles, other AFOL's out there
might want some. So profit isn't entirely the issue as much as cost recovery.
I guess my true question is that if I make 'em then sell 'em.....
At cost of course...
I suppose that muddies the waters a tad bit.
Sorry I didn't think of it earlier
K.M.
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| I don't think it's an issue at all. It's obviously not illegal to make Lego-compatable pieces (ref. Tyco, Megablox, as well as non-clones that can be connected to Lego), just duplicating Lego pieces for which the patent hasn't expired. If you made a (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) Well, I hardly think they can sue you for making your own creation that fits in with lego. After all, how many other things have a dia of (xxx) to fit into the lego hands. Taking existing parts and modifying them _should_ also be legal, since (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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