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"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> Here's a better example. The people who uploaded copyrighted music to Napster made
no
> profit; no revenue, either.
Huh? That's completely different. Making pictures of LEGO does not give the people who
view those pictures duplicated LEGOs for free. Uploading copyrighted music does. So
theoretically one potentially helps business and the other hurts it*.
The only problems I could see are 1) If a non-affiliated party made money off of their
distinct likeness (even some individual LEGO pieces are copyrighted), or 2) if
pictures
depict LEGO models whose building instructions are copyright. However, AFAIK the
latter
does not apply once the set is out of production, because there are large net archives
of
instruction book scans of out-of-print instructions. The Ice Planet vehicle I'm not
sure
about (it's '93 I believe), but the Auto Chassis I am sure is out of production, and
the
castle is my own design...
(*Actually, with mp3 piracy the similarity to theft is largely exaggerated...)
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