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Re: O'Reilly book news
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 4 Sep 1999 03:20:02 GMT
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MATTDM@MATTDMsaynotospam.ORG
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Jonathan Knudsen <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote:
> The whole thing is kind of silly. LEGO felt that we shouldn't be allowed to
> publish a book without paying them a license fee. We didn't think we needed
> to pay a license fee to write about their product; after all, we don't do
> that for anyone else, like Sun, or Microsoft.
The silly part is that this book is basically free advertising and free
excitement about their product. It's easily going to making them more money
_without_ a license fee.
> Basically we need to change the title in order to avoid marketplace
> confusion--it needs to be very clear that our product is not produced or
> supported by LEGO. We'll also have a prominent disclaimer inside somewhere.
> We're following our lawyers' suggestions to minimize our legal risk.
How about "Undocumented LEGO Mindstorms" or somesuch?
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) The whole thing is kind of silly. LEGO felt that we shouldn't be allowed to publish a book without paying them a license fee. We didn't think we needed to pay a license fee to write about their product; after all, we don't do that for anyone (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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