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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.build.mecha, Mladen Pejic writes:
> > <CLAPPING> Beautiful, nicely worded James!
> >
> > I let James use my models, because he has the decency to first ask me before
> > he does anything, if he could actually USE my model. Then, when he put it on
> > his wonderfully organized and cool website, he includes my FULL name and
> > website link.
>
> This certainly is an appropriate display of courtesy, especially given the
> sensitive and occasionally nebulous nature of online copyright issues. What
> is the prevailing wisdom regarding reverse-engineering of online models?
I think it's at the very least considered polite to give credit. I'm not sure
there's prevailing wisdom, per se. My black hopper, currently available at my
brickbay site ( <grin> ), has been reverse engineered in the past. I'm not
particularly pleased about it but I considered that I published information
about it and that the information I published would possibly enable people to
do that and that was an acceptable risk/outcome...
Now if someone tried to market a hopper and pass it off as their own work when
it clearly was copying mine, I'd use as much public opinion as I could muster
against them. I haven't read this particular slugfest (nor do I want to) but
it seems one party is alleging that other people are copying his work and
passing it off as their own. That's not good.
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| (...) It wasn't that at all. Someone asked nicely if he could use the design posted online, and the request was denied in a rude way. Proper credit would certainly have been given. (26 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) This certainly is an appropriate display of courtesy, especially given the sensitive and occasionally nebulous nature of online copyright issues. What is the prevailing wisdom regarding reverse-engineering of online models? Dave! (26 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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