Copying

**Nottoold** · by **Nottoold** on Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:50 pm

Someone called "GameVirus07" used Legodac's creation to enter the Ninja hideout challenge.

**RacerXtreme5000** · by **RacerXtreme5000** on Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:55 pm

Yeah, he's not the only one, people find creations on google and upload it to the lego club, I think it is sad in my opinion.

**Mark** · by **Mark** on Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:10 pm

That's image pirateing...

**designerdude101** · by **designerdude101** on Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:13 pm

And also plagiarism. I entered a really cool creation(my aircraft carrier) which got plagiarized a few days after I uploaded it. All you need to do is contact lego and tell them, and they'll take care of it.

**Spilight** · by **Spilight** on Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:16 pm

That's so pathetic!

**Mark** · by **Mark** on Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:34 pm

Yeah, plagiarism is illegal, you can get a big fine for it...

**Tomthewarrior** · by **Tomthewarrior** on Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:52 pm

That's just low.

**bogdanthehockeyfreak** · by **bogdanthehockeyfreak** on Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:33 pm

That's cheap. And not fair to the person who really made the creation. Mad

~V · by ~V on Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:52 pm

Yeah, I mean that happened to me bunches of times

**MsRowdyRedhead** · by **MsRowdyRedhead** on Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:56 pm

Nottoold wrote: Someone called "GameVirus07" used Legodac's creation to enter the Ninja hideout challenge.

Yeah, he did... and one of his other creations is copied from a cuff link ad!!

**designerdude101** · by **designerdude101** on Wed Mar 04, 2009 6:10 pm

Just tell legodac to report it to lego.

**Star Wars Freak** · by **Star Wars Freak** on Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:43 pm

That is just sad. Taking credit for what someone else does is not fair. That person should be punished. LEGO.com is at a really low point right now.

**Legomaster000** · by **Legomaster000** on Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:29 pm

Shadow Raider Vader wrote:Yeah, plagiarism is illegal, you can get a bit fine for it...

That's true with governmental purposes...

~V · by ~V on Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:37 pm

I reported lego on my creatiions, the gave me a generic meassage

**kk634** · by **kk634** on Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:25 am

In my opinion, that's just pitiful and annoying.
I wonder if they know it's illegal?
Anyways, just report it, if you haven't already. They'll fix it.

**MsRowdyRedhead** · by **MsRowdyRedhead** on Sat Mar 07, 2009 2:21 pm

Legobricktom, a rank 2er on MLN, submitted a creation in the Build a Bit of My Lego Network challenge in the LU creation lab. Here is his creation.

This bee is from Pete Wentz and Ashley Simpson's wedding last year. He Comissioned artist Nathan Sawaya to create the giant bumblebee. How could LEGO miss that???

**Spilight** · by **Spilight** on Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:33 pm

Good grief. What a cheater. Lego has been slacking.

**Trident** · by **Trident** on Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:54 pm

Man, this makes me mad... We should go on strike!

**bogdanthehockeyfreak** · by **bogdanthehockeyfreak** on Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:55 pm

We could... but don't know how far we would get...

**spacedinodig611** · by **spacedinodig611** on Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:00 am

You can only copy peoples creation only if they say so.

**lindavz** · by **lindavz** on Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:46 am

designerdude101 wrote:And also plagiarism. I entered a really cool creation(my aircraft carrier) which got plagiarized a few days after I uploaded it. All you need to do is contact lego and tell them, and they'll take care of it.

Yes, this happened to me on my Swiss Family Treehouse. I sent messages to LEGO and they removed them from the others. Also, I placed a comment in the others that said 'Hey that looks like mine that I created' or that looks familiar! : )

So just send them a letter, and maybe a second one if needed.

Letter 1 from LEGO:

Dear Lindavz

Thank you for your email and for your interest in the LEGO® Club.

Your complaint was received and forwarded to our Web Team who will usually remove the duplicate image after researching the request. We would however like to emphasize that you should not think of the copying as a crime. A lot of times the children who do this are very young, and they just copy stuff because they think the creation is cool and don't realize that what they are doing is wrong. The child usually does it as compliment as in the saying "to imitate someone is to pay the person a genuine compliment - often an unintended compliment."

We apologize for any inconvenience this caused in your home.

Thank you again for contacting us. We wish your family many happy hours of creative building with LEGO brand toys in the years to come.

LEGO

Letter 2 from LEGO

Dear Lindavz
Thank you for your reply email. We are always delighted to hear from a loyal LEGO enthusiast.

I have contacted our web producers again and they informed me that they receive thousands of submissions every day and do their best to remove duplications. If they miss any, they are grateful to consumers such as yourself that inform us of these duplications and they will react immediately by removing them.

The web team has gone through the gallery and have not found any further duplicates. If you should find any other specific usernames or creations, please send them to us, so we can check them and remove them as soon as possible.

Again, we want to apologize for any inconvenience and disappointment this has caused.

Thank you again for contacting us. We wish your family many happy hours of creative building with LEGO brand toys in the years to come.

LEGO

by Guest on Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:12 am

lindavz wrote:We would however like to emphasize that you should not think of the copying as a crime. A lot of times the children who do this are very young, and they just copy stuff because they think the creation is cool and don't realize that what they are doing is wrong. The child usually does it as compliment as in the saying "to imitate someone is to pay the person a genuine compliment - often an unintended compliment."

I agree with Lego. It doesn't make it right, but some people don't know better. Of course Lego said not to copy people on their submission rules...

**Bricknave** · by **Bricknave** on Thu May 07, 2009 9:04 am

I've seen lots of kids upload stolen creations from sites like Flickr, MOCPages, and BrickBuildr.
There was once this one kid who uploaded a stolen creation and said that it was his own (His creation was eventually removed).

Sad, isn't it? LEGO Smooth

**Tomthewarrior** · by **Tomthewarrior** on Thu May 07, 2009 1:54 pm

Bricknave wrote:I've seen lots of kids upload stolen creations from sites like Flickr, MOCPages, and BrickBuildr.
There was once this one kid who uploaded a stolen creation and said that it was his own (His creation was eventually removed).

Sad, isn't it?

Stealing is always sad. Poor form too.

**Darknight1101** · by **Darknight1101** on Thu May 07, 2009 11:48 pm

these aren't people doing it for fun its probably because they are jealous but *Violation*17* on thats a bit over board not giving any credit to legodac
oh yeah do any of you know comed-0 where is he?

**|| REC0N ||** · by **|| REC0N ||** on Fri May 08, 2009 3:34 am

I've heard of this before. Never happend to me. I feel sorry to people who get there creations and people just copy them. Mad

**designerdude101** · by **designerdude101** on Fri May 08, 2009 4:45 am

I haven't had an LU creation plagiarized, but one of my factory creations was.

~V · by ~V on Fri May 08, 2009 3:26 pm

Even IF they give credit to the real builder, it is still plagiarism

**Bricknave** · by **Bricknave** on Sat May 09, 2009 6:25 am

One reason they're doing this is because they're too lazy to build something to get the prizes. Another is that they want undeserved popularity.

HOW could someone have the heart to do that!? Don't they know that they're dragging the good comments away from the people WHO DESERVE IT!?

At least LEGO is progressing when it comes to this subject, remember the Creation Lab Capers post?

by Guest on Sat May 09, 2009 7:26 pm

Spilo wrote:Good grief. What a cheater. Lego has been slacking.

Hidro444 wrote:Man, this makes me mad... We should go on strike!

Woah, woah, woah.
First of all, before you do anything, you have to consider the situation and the details. Lego is a BIG company, and they've got a lot to deal with, do you think they can find every pirated image? Also, how do you know they're slacking? What if they've been really busy with other things? It doesn't excuse anything, but it makes you think. They've got a lot to do.

~V · by ~V on Sat May 09, 2009 7:41 pm

Yeah, they wouldn't know who's image is who's and who is acctually right.

**Micah477** · by **Micah477** on Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:36 pm

BioK wrote:Yeah, they wouldn't know who's image is who's and who is acctually right.

The person who posted first should get the right, but that does leave a lot of possibilities from people posting creations on other sites that people cop'y and p'ut onto LEGO Neutral

My Fort TROF was copied a few days ago. how do I report?

by Guest on Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:09 pm

Star Wars Freak wrote:That is just sad. Taking credit for what someone else does is not fair. That person should be punished. LEGO.com is at a really low point right now.

Low??? They are super low. Their mods don't hold up LEGO standards and they let people break govermental laws like this???? This is totally pathetic.

**Lucio** · by **Lucio** on Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:48 am

It's not against governmental laws unless the creations are trademarked and patented.

**lindavz** · by **lindavz** on Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:45 pm

Tajun wrote:It's not against governmental laws unless the creations are trademarked and patented.

Depends on which county you live in, but not so in the US.

**Lucio** · by **Lucio** on Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:59 pm

Huh? Do you mean it's against the law in the US to copy someones creation.

**MsRowdyRedhead** · by **MsRowdyRedhead** on Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:27 pm

And it is against LEGO's terms of use, anyhow.

**Lucio** · by **Lucio** on Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:50 pm

Yeah, yeah, but I'm just saying that it's not a criminal offense to do so unless they are tradmarked and patented.

**MsRowdyRedhead** · by **MsRowdyRedhead** on Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:03 pm

Yes it is, Kit.

**lindavz** · by **lindavz** on Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:38 pm

lindavz wrote:
Tajun wrote:It's not against governmental laws unless the creations are trademarked and patented.

Depends on which county you live in, but not so in the US.

Tajun wrote:Huh? Do you mean it's against the law in the US to copy someones creation.

In regard to US:
What I mean is that you don't have to have a trademark or patent for your creation in order to 'protect it'. We are discussing copyright which is something different altogether (not trademark or patent) and does not require a Copyright notice for the original 'artist'.

In regard to other than US:
Different countries have different laws so it's not ok to say 'It's not against governmental laws' because it depends on which country you are in.

**Lucio** · by **Lucio** on Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:33 am

Really? Oh, okay, my bad. Sorry

! lol

**lollypop12** · by **lollypop12** on Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:23 am

It's not fair on the person who made it. I think we should report to LEGO.