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From: fmr@cwi.nl (Frank Rahmani)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Re: lotus chairman makes 26 million
Message-ID: <493@sering.cwi.nl>
Date: 10 May 88 07:21:03 GMT
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> You bet it was immoral for you to duplicated that BMW, and also illegal.
> Aside from the obvious fact that you would have to rip the BMW logos,
> nameplates, insignia and serial numbers off your duplicated car, or be
> guilty of fraud, I think it would not be proper of you to duplicate all
> the artistic and aesthetic elements of the car without paying the creators
> of those elements.
> (Isn't that British Motor Works? :-) )
It would be neither immoral nor illegal to make your personal copy
of a BMW (says BMW). It would be quite a respectable effort. They
would like to use your 'copy' for carshows (first handbuild BMW!)
By the way , all car manufacturers sell their logo's and insignia's
to anybody who wants them (collectors, kit car builders etc.)
And of course BMW is Bayerische Motoren Werke (in contrary to
any British car manufacturer their sales grow, they even caught up
with Germany's number one: Mercedes.
I hope you understand that cars are a bad example in this discussion.
> It is immoral to misappropriate somebody else's creative efforts against
> their will.
Nonsense. Copying somebody else's creative efforts is a creative effort
in itself, you are creating something, if it is your idea or not.
And how about two or more people having the same idea at the same
time without knowing about each other? When YOU see the finished
product you would shurely accuse one of them having copied the other.
> 
> Why is that hard to understand?
Because worldwide the lack of respect towards other people's
properties has grown immensely, that's what we call Freedom.
> -- 
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