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Subject:	Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.publish
Date:	Sat, 12 Feb 2000 04:36:43 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Kevin Loch writes: > In lugnet.publish, Barbara Sproat writes: > > [...] Or how about allowing custom minifigs from the member to be > > displayed? [...] > > [...] otherwise there will be a large selection of figs to choose from. Do you think this is safe (from a legal standpoint)? LEGO has already done this for members at the LEGO MINDSTORMS website. We had planned to do this for LUGNET members, but then LEGO went and put their own minifig generator to use: http://www.legomindstorms.com/members/index.asp?Userid=151 http://www.legomindstorms.com/members/index.asp?Userid=154 http://www.legomindstorms.com/members/index.asp?Userid=165 http://www.legomindstorms.com/members/index.asp?Userid=168 etc. The reason it made us nervous when they did that is because it seems likely (or at least possible) that people at TLC could assume that they had thought up the idea first -- and that if we did it afterwards, that we must've stolen [sic] the idea. But the idea of an interactive minifig generator was first demonstrated on the net way back in 1997: http://www.baseplate.com/toys/minifig/ So we've hesitated to incorporate things of that nature. (Which isn't to suggest that they'll never ever go in.) Maybe we're just being overly cautious. --Todd

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		Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone!
(...) Lemme see if I get what you're saying. You guys thought of something first, have clearly established prior art, and when TLC comes out with the same idea, significantly after you do, you decide to not do it any more because they might think (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)

		Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone!
(...) I see that my being unable to work has had some more consequences. I can't say I'm unaffected by this conversation. Being discharged from hospital only yesterday, and now leaving for ToyFair on Sunday, there won't be much I can say here or do. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)

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		Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone!
(...) Yes, in many different user selectable ways. (...) Yes, and even better you will be able to assign any icon in your collection to be the icon for any folder in your collection. I might allow that for the user icon otherwise there will be a (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)

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