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Re: Custom Miniatures

From: Doug_Evans/CSN/UNEBR@U...
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:24:56 -0600
Subject: Re: Custom Miniatures

I was hopeing the copyright thread would pretty much die out, much as it
is
dear to Jon's(MOST understandably) heart.

I was earlier going to reply to 'is this illegal' with 'probably'. It's
a
pretty complicated business: if the company holding the copyright
belly's
up, it MAY revert to the original author/designer. If that person dies,
it
MAY go to the estate.

It's complicated by a number of things, not the least of which the fact
we're talking about international copyright, which has some leeway
across
borders, inspite of various conventions.

However, to get this off list, PLEASE, if you have web access, try using
either http://www.dejanews.com or http://www.reference.com, and search
back
though discussions on rec.games.miniatures.*. Use key words such as
casting
OR copyright OR resin, and you'll get more than you'd want to know about
international copyright, the Bern(?) convention, the applicability of
'Fair
Use', etc.

There may be more comments coming, but if anybody else tries to with in
the
next six months, I shall challenge that they have NOT bothered to read
all
the above, and have failed to give us the courtesy of avoiding ground
covered by others. There's THAT much that's been posted.

The_Beast

P.S. Don't copy. They're out there, honest.

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