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Re: Picture piracy at www.lego.com: nothing happened at all...
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lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:00:06 GMT
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Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote:

Last month at least 5 out of 8 pictures in the Theme Gallery have been
stolen from known AFOLs. That has been discussed in Lugnet and can be found
here:

http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=20505

I wrote 2 mails to TLC and got an answer, that they would react on it. But now
the builder of the month is announced and you can see: nothing happened at all!
A pirated picture has been voted and announced as winner for the Theme Gallery.
http://www.lego.com/gallery/theme/

I'm really disappointed again about TLCs behaviour on this. They don't want us
to pirate their pictures and most AFOLs do respect that, but vice versa?

What's your opinion on this?

At this point my opinion is that we should look for a lawyer or law firm
who would be willing to take this on. TLC has repeatedly demonstrated
that they expect IMMEDIATE response from our community when their IP
rights are violated here on Lugnet. I think it is time we demand the
reverse. If they are unwilling to show the same concern they demand of
us, they deserve to be burned at the stake.

I suspect a pretty strong case could be built against them as they are
demonstrating repeated indifference to researching the origins of IP
presented to them for publication. I know that large companies can take
this issue seriously.

--
Frank Filz

-----------------------------
Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com



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  Re: Picture piracy at www.lego.com: nothing happened at all...
 
(...) Or the Press. --Todd (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)

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Last month at least 5 out of 8 pictures in the Theme Gallery have been stolen from known AFOLs. That has been discussed in Lugnet and can be found here: (URL) wrote 2 mails to TLC and got an answer, that they would react on it. But now the builder (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)  

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