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It seems there is again a stolen picture to be voted as model of the month in the Theme Gallery on www.lego.com. (URL) builder of the number one model named as "Testarossa" has been Jonathan Stephenson, although he built it as a Corvette. I can't (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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Has anyone notified Lego of this? Do they care? ~Mark (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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From their rules: Pirated images (someone else's photo taken without permission) is cheating if submitted to the Web Club Gallery as your own. These types of behaviors will result in denying prospective or continued membership in the Club without (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Has anyone else noticed the model currently in second place? That is *MY* Tango V, not a "space camper"! The web club really does need to be easily accessable. I am enraged, to put it nicely. I thank you tremendously for pointing this out! (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I have also just now noticed that the 3rd place model is, too, indeed stolen! (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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3 are stolen? Thats terrible. We need someone or several of us to monitor this. (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Right. We also need more than several of us to mail them at webclub@lego.com and tell them to abolish the process of sending images via the internet. (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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Actually, it looks like there are 4 stolen... Unless Scott Schuricht is 5 years old and from Vietnam, and put a (c) 1995 in his picture's upper left corner :( guess he built it in the womb???? if someone has his e-mail they might want to contact him (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm sorry but this is actually getting quite humorous. How long do you think the LEGO folks actually look at the pictures before they get put up for voting? I mean really this one takes the cake. Obviously the folks at LEGO really don't care (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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"Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message news:FyBBnn.IMr@lugnet.com... (...) think (...) voting? (...) This provides a pretty clear case that they didn't even apply "due dillegence" to avoid copyright infringement. I think they should (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'll be sure to win the next round after I've submitted my highly original Futuron Monorail. I can't wait! Dave! (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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Can an assembly of LEGO bricks (ie a model) be copyrighted? Or is it the photo of the model that can be copyrighted? (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sounds like a good idea. I would also highly recommend posting publicly about this to the lugnet.lego.direct newsgroup (URL) was set up specifically as a direct communications-to-LEGO channel and is read regularly by people at LEGO. As BradJ (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Exactly. You cannot (as far as I know) copyright an assembly of Lego, but a photograph that you took can be considered yours by law. example: Ansel Addams took many photographs of nature/landscapes in the black and white poster format. Those (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) <snip> IMHO, either way it is terrible that a parent will totally ignore recommended ages and let a newborn play with Lego System elements.:-) Maybe we are blowing this way out of proportion. Perhaps YinYinYin is short for Scott and Scott (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) They should hire Lugnetters. Anyway, mailing them won't do much good without the urls those were stolen from: Pic #1 (Testarossa) is from Jonathan Stephenson, while his old page is down (possibly taken down in disgust) his stuff is archived at (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I took down the pictures well over a year ago, but I just uploaded one of them again: (URL) kid must've had the pic sitting in his hard drive for quite a while... I don't know why... that model sucked. (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Greg, Just to help you prove the model is yours you may want to upload some other pictures of different angles of the model. That way there can be no doubt that it is yours (I personally believe you but TLC may want more proof than a picture (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I remember someone submitted <set:400 this set> once, and it got in third or something place. Alan (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) If you improve, then by default whatever you've improved on is inferior. "Improvement" implies superiority. Which, of course, doesn't mean that something "sucks", it just means it's inferior. If I say I think "The Empire Strikes Back" is an (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Also note that in second place in the builders gallery is the Indy Storm. Are the people who run this contest so STUPID that they can't spot a one year old set? Now this is getting just plain pitiful. (see this for yourself: (URL) ) Alan (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Damn, I knew inferior was the wrong word as soon as I posted it. I was just hopeing no one would call me on it ;-). I bow to your "superior" wisdom. (...) Well I always give ANH the nod over ESB but that is a story for another day. ESB is damn (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That would be a good incentive to get someone to violate your copyright, man.:) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) why don't they rename it the LEGO Rogues Gallery? :) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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They should make a separate "Rogues Gallery" with the "Wanted Posters" of the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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I don't think it has been mentioned already (I took some time to read through the thread), but the model currently at fourth place is also stolen. It's the Mad Max interceptor model. The original can be seen here: (URL) if this was already (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I like the idea of sending images via the internet. I like seeing other people's MOCs, and if they required a photo to be sent in snail mail, I bet they wouldn't get so many contestants. It is probably impossible to verify that an image is not (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) He does - I remember visiting it WAY back when he posted about it and loving it. I have no idea what the URL is, though. (...) I'd love to see that! (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You're sure it wasn't simply the web page at www.madmaxmovies.com? Fredrik (24 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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Speaking of Stolen creations, What is this JJ SIERRA.COM doing with my Open top hummer. I have working on a successful Hummer for 3 years and I don't take stealing lightly. Compare for yourself My 4 door soft top Hummer SECOND one down. color blue (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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Yep! That's where I saw it, thanks. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 29-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Man, that is bad. I wish there was something that could be done to keep models from being copied. (24 years ago, 29-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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