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Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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Wed, 6 Dec 2000 23:50:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Powell writes:
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> > As long as I credit the creator, and am not republishing or selling their
> > work, then you're out of luck trying to sue me. If I build a model based on
> > pictures of your model (which, unless I buy the instructions, or otherwise
> > obtain them, is all I have to go on), then that is a derivative work, by
> > definition. So long as a credit my inspirition, well, tough noogies,
> > there's not much you can do about it.
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> That's like saying, as long as I credit the band who wrote the song, and don't
> sell the CD, I am not breaking copywrite when I copy a CD.
Nope, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm probably not being clear
enough. To mirror your analogy, I'm saying that as long as I credit the
band who wrote the song, and don't try to sell or republish the song, I can
sing the song myself, as much as I want.
A distinct difference.
> It ain't so, and I think it is fairly plain to see that that is not so.
I agree that what you're talking about ain't so. But I strongly think
you're mis-interpreting your grounds.
If I see a jacket in a store window, go home and make a jacket just like it,
how have I violated copyright?
If I see a garden from the street, go home and grow a garden just like it,
how have I violated copyright?
If I see a toy on the internet, go home and build a toy just like it, how
have I violated copyright?
Do you see what I am driving at here? Your design is yours, I'll not
contest that, and if you tell me I can't build one unless I buy the
instructions, that's your call.
But as soon as you put any aspect(s) of your design on public display, I can
do my best to duplicate it, and you have no recourse.
> As for the comment above, perhaps I should have said, as I did in a later
> post, that after all other recourses have been used, I would consider further
> action... (that is probably a better wording...)
Understood. You don't strike me as a sue-happy kind of guy. :)
James
(thanks for the redirected newsgroup - I missed that the first time around)
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| (...) At some level, you are correct, but there are definitely areas where you can run afoul of he law: - patents. There isn't any "fair use" type of clause for them - if you take a picture of your copy of someone else's MOC, and publish it, you may (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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