Re: Legal Stuff (was: [OFFICIAL] FALLOUT 4 (June 99))

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>I think you'd have a tough time arguing that (for example) the GZG Star
Tiger
>isn't a Starfury, or our 'Fighter with Hex Solar Panels' wasn't a TIE.
I
must
>admit I'm not an expert in copyright law so I don't know exactly where
the
lines
>can be drawn,

The unofficial but generally agreed on view is "stand back five feet and
squint".  If they look the same, they're close enough to start a suit. 
A
Lara Croft figure or similar would be more arguable since there are
quite a
few women in the world who might have been used by your designer, but a
not-TIE-fighter would be kind of difficult to defend.  I suppose the big
boys could recover all your profit from whatever of those designs you've
ever sold, if they were really motivated, but a "cease and desist" is
more
probable.  I hope you're incorporated, so you are not personally as well
as
corporately liable?

 but I	would guess that we're on pretty thin ice. Plus Eidos, Lucas
>etc would be able to line up a huge array of expensive lawyers, so we'd
never be
>in a position to contest the issue anyway. Hopefully it'll never come
to
that :-)
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>Tony
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