"Is It Pirating?" Topic

Amusingly, and two wrongs don't make a right, but one wonders as it looks to be a 'copy' of an actual car if the manufacturer of the original toy had a license from the car manufacturer.

Just ask my brother about the palletizing systems that they sell once to Asian manufacturers for their packaging lines.

oh, no…. sorry Z. i didn't know Zephyr was trademarked….lol! just kidding. you and G have both made good points. wally-world used to sell mostly american made (when they could). now it is all crap from china. don't think for one minute that anyone from china will sell a product with a licensing agreement for "trade dress" EVER. why doesn't ford go after wally-world for aiding what equates to a criminal enterprise? maybe wally world is now bigger than ford, and they can afford to do so…?

my older brother works for an oil-field equipment company. they sell drill pipe (among other things). for some reason, despite inventing almost every revolutionaly (no pun intended) item to make life better (or so i learned from the last olympics), china STILL cannot make drill pipe worth a darn. so they'll sell equipment to the red chinese, but they charge 3X the price they charge others….(heh-heh).

here is another interesting case of "trademark" law…

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or to put it another way, i'd love to trademark the word "flour", and then sue every author and publisher that releases a cookbook with a recipe that calls for flour…. it can't be done. nor should that ability to do so be considered reasonable.

"The Copyright Act contains a number of limitations on economic rights, which means that a work may be used in certain specified situations and under certain conditions despite copyright protection. … Anyone may make one or a few copies of protected works that have been made available to the public for private use, meaning for personal use."

That is what the law says here (quoting from the Government Offices of Sweden "A breif overveiw Swedish copyright system" link if you know Swedish you can look it up in the law text itself and confirm it says the same thing of course).

Obviously posting copies to the Internet is different, but that wasn't the original question. I doubt the law as written or as used in case law in other countries are much different. Copyright was never intended to give you 100 % restrictions on how works are used.