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Re: Enter the LEGO(R) Design Challenge
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lugnet.mediawatch
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Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:00:18 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, David Laswell wrote:
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Yes, it does also allow them to purposefully take your design and turn it
into a set without paying you a dime (even if you didn’t win), but mostly
this looks like pretty typical CYA legalese. There was a CCG that I used to
collect and play, and the company that designed the game would accept
submitted ideas, but only if two criteria were met. The first was that
whenever you sent them a submission, you preceeded the submitted idea with an
exact copy of their standard boilerplate surrender of rights. The second was
that you couldn’t have posted the idea online before submitting it to them
(and possibly until after the idea was accepted as well).
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thanks for the response, david.
i understand and accept the rules. my main point was the cheap notion of ‘let’s
have a contest to gather LOTS of ideas for (relatively) free rather than pay our
on-staff designers to get creative’.
..jg
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) That's one way to look at it, Joseph. Another way would be to acknowledge the TLC is involving AFOLs into their design process, a gesture for which AFOLs were screaming 10+ years ago. You may not know or remember what it was like 10-15 years (...) (14 years ago, 28-Jul-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
| | | Re: Enter the LEGO(R) Design Challenge
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| (...) You're still assuming that the main goal of this is to glean ideas for use in future sets. On the surface, it appears that the main goal is to get cool models that they can use as graphics for the 2010 Holiday catalog. Graphics which in no way (...) (14 years ago, 29-Jul-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Enter the LEGO(R) Design Challenge
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| (...) It may sound underhanded at first glance, but that's all standard boilerplate. It has the following effects: 1. If you submit an physical photo, you surrender your rights to that photo. They are not obligated to return it to you. 2. If they (...) (14 years ago, 28-Jul-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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