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Re: CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP!
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Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:06:57 GMT
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, John Neal writes:
>
> , yet, when a company, like
> > Lego decides to rip-off names from another culture, words that have deep
> > religous meaning to them, you think they are the ones that are wrong. Well,
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> As many are pointing out elsewhere in this thread, it is absurd to believe that
> a "culture" "owns" anything. What a load of hooey!
Why is it more absurd than a corporation's claim to a trademark? Note that
the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) http://www.govt.nz/aboutnz/treaty.php3
explicitly acknowledges Maori entitlement to cultural heritage, which
includes their language.
http://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/waitangi/reports/wai11.html
If LEGO can acknowledge the importance of cultural sensitivity, why is it a
problem for so many AFOLs (one or two in particular)?
> > I say shame on Lego, first to use the names and then to deny where they
> > originated, saying they made them up. You should really be saying, shame on
> > Lego. Here, I thought they came up with all this stuff on their own to find
> > out they plagiarized it all. Just like you can't copy someone else's work
> > in school, the business world is just the same.
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> Except that this "culture" who thinks they have a case mostly certainly isn't a
> *business*.
Why should corporations be privileged over other cultural groups with a
distinct identity?
> > Please think about this from a different angle then just, "getting money of
> > of Lego." This is the business world. Just like Lego goes after people
> > using their company name, the New Zealand people are doing the same...
>
> lol When I first started reading your post, I thought you were speaking tongue
> in cheek. There *isn't* any other way to see this except for shameless $$$
> grubbing. Sorry.
That's a sad comment on your world view John.
--DaveL
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