Comments on: Lego Prohibits Use of Product in Spinal Tap DVD http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/1475/lego-prohibits-use-of-product-in-spinal-tap-dvd/ The New Thing Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:55:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jeffreyhttp://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/1475/lego-prohibits-use-of-product-in-spinal-tap-dvd/comment-page-1/#comment-2424 jeffrey Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:50:26 +0000 http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/?p=1475#comment-2424 It is not brain surgery to be clueful about this, and again, in a world in which Lucas has published explicit terms that permit its fans to mash up its content, you'd think that Lego, a system that's created to let people create stuff, would have something similar.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-2424">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> It is not brain surgery to be clueful about this, and again, in a world in which Lucas has published explicit terms that permit its fans to mash up its content, you’d think that Lego, a system that’s created to let people create stuff, would have something similar.

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]]> By: Jacob Davieshttp://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/1475/lego-prohibits-use-of-product-in-spinal-tap-dvd/comment-page-1/#comment-2423 Jacob Davies Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:35:33 +0000 http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/?p=1475#comment-2423 The video production company probably made the mistake of asking for permission from Lego, instead of just doing it.That means that someone at Lego has to say, on paper, "Yes, this unauthorized commercial video using our copyrighted figures and containing obscenity is okay with the Lego Company."Not gonna happen. You wouldn't sign that letter if you worked at Lego either. I certainly wouldn't. It's one thing to silently ignore fan-made material, it's another to officially approve its unpaid use in commercial products that are well outside of the core Lego market.Again, if they had made use of them without asking for permission I bet you any amount of money that Lego would not have pursued them for it.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-2423">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> The video production company probably made the mistake of asking for permission from Lego, instead of just doing it.

That means that someone at Lego has to say, on paper, “Yes, this unauthorized commercial video using our copyrighted figures and containing obscenity is okay with the Lego Company.”

Not gonna happen. You wouldn’t sign that letter if you worked at Lego either. I certainly wouldn’t. It’s one thing to silently ignore fan-made material, it’s another to officially approve its unpaid use in commercial products that are well outside of the core Lego market.

Again, if they had made use of them without asking for permission I bet you any amount of money that Lego would not have pursued them for it.

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]]> By: jeffreyhttp://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/1475/lego-prohibits-use-of-product-in-spinal-tap-dvd/comment-page-1/#comment-2421 jeffrey Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:25:54 +0000 http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/?p=1475#comment-2421 Yeah, but to be fair, Lucas has historically been very accommodating to usage like this (they could have objected to the "Troopers" video etc. but didn't).<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-2421">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Yeah, but to be fair, Lucas has historically been very accommodating to usage like this (they could have objected to the “Troopers” video etc. but didn’t).

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]]> By: Frank Ghttp://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/1475/lego-prohibits-use-of-product-in-spinal-tap-dvd/comment-page-1/#comment-2420 Frank G Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:17:09 +0000 http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/?p=1475#comment-2420 It's too bad the guy didn't use the Star Wars Lego figures too, then Lucas could have joined in the BS.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-2420">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> It’s too bad the guy didn’t use the Star Wars Lego figures too, then Lucas could have joined in the BS.

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