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Re: Brick Testament in Trouble?
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Date: 
Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:03:39 GMT
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>  Grumble.  Well, your assessment is correct (based on precedent), but I
> still don't like it!
>  Here's a more abstract question--if I buy a LEGO product, am I
> automatically entering into a "fair use" contract respecting TLG's ideas of
> propriety?  Would this hold true even if I were a minor?  Or how about if I
> used Best-Lock or Coko or Oxford figures, which at a glance are
> indistinguishable (to the uninformed viewer) from true LEGO minifigs?
> Here's another hypothetical;  Suppose I use MegaBloks to make a huge mosaic
> based on a graphic pornographic photo, and suppose that my mosaic is
> popularized via Internet word of mouth as "that dirty picture made with
> LEGOs," can LEGO take any action against me?  How about if I include a
> disclaimer at the top of the page?

Call it "art", and you can do what you like! ;)

Is there a right to free speech in Legoland?

Scott A

> I'm not trying to be absurd, but to what extent is TLG reasonably allowed to
> go in protecting their propriety?
> 
>   Dave!
> 
> > (moved to off-topic.debate)
> 
>  Doh!  I thought I did that.  Sorry, all!



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(...) I'm glad you put a winky there-- that is one of my hot buttons-- "artists" hiding behind the First Amendment while they purvey filth and obscenity-- and then *I* have to support it! (NEA in the US) (...) What about TLC's rights? You know, (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) Grumble. Well, your assessment is correct (based on precedent), but I still don't like it! Here's a more abstract question--if I buy a LEGO product, am I automatically entering into a "fair use" contract respecting TLG's ideas of propriety? (...) (24 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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