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Re: Santa Fe B-Unit: OK or not?
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Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:02:39 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
> > Offering them to the public on Bricklink just might cause a copyright
> > not to exsist.
> > You offer them to inspire and if someone is inspired to build it
> > they might have the right to sell it.
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> It doesn't make any difference. You can do what you like with your own
> copyrighted IP but unless you sell or donate the copyright you still own it. By
> posting on Brickshelf you are making it available for viewing, not copying and
> not selling.
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> Furthermore, as far as I know copyright doesn't even need to be enforced (unlike
> a trademark). You could let twenty people copy and sell your thing and stop the
> 21st and you would be purely within your legal rights.
not exactly. The printing of the design can be copyright, however what you do
with building it is not. I am more familiar with the needlework part of this
for an example. You cannot copy the instructions, however you can stitch as
many designs from those instructions you want. Then you are free to sell the
stitched pieces. You are not selling the directions, you are selling the
completed piece. It is duplication of printed material that is legally
protected, not the product. So when I sold a copy of a design that could not be
duplicated, however you could stitch from those directions as many pieces as you
wanted to, then could sell the finished piece. That is how our copyright lawyer
explained it to us.
> --snip--
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> > (If you build a Lego set, say Hogwarts castle and sell it, Lego has no rights to
> > that set even though it is their design.)
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> That is simply not true. LEGO own the copyright to their designs. You can resell
> the set because you purchased the right to use their design and are selling that
> right to the other person but they still retain full copyright.
Yes they hold the right to the printed instructions, not the built set. It is
like copyrighting a building. You can't do that, but you can copyright the
plans.
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> > Good luck, at least the forger has very good taste, your designs are great.
> > John P
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> And I can't argue with that.
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> Tim
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> PS. I am not a lawyer but I have done a fair bit of reading on copyright law.
> This is not legal advice.
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| (...) On closer inspection it would appear that copyright law is a bit more complex in what it covers than I realised (second paragraph of (URL) suspect that Lego may differ from needlepoint because of this in that it is (most probably) counted as a (...) (17 years ago, 25-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) It's good to hear they will act. Does this mean you create needlepoint and collect Lego? Interesting combination of hobbies. (...) Copyright law is complex. Ownership of copyright is usually very easy (at least when it's not part of a (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jun-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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