CSMacLaren wrote:
Deffie,
There is a myth that if you change it from 5%-30% you can escape lawsuit, but this is MYTH. According to an intellectual property lawyer's own blog, simply making a sculpture of an image and having enough likeness with that image is potentially copyright infringement.
So there are two aspects here: how LFL views it, and how we as a community of unofficial products self-police ourselves.
We just need to be humble in the sight of LFL's good graces towards the fans.
Yeah i meant more as a community based thing really i think its pretty clear that copyrights arent always respected or as JRX says our collections would be very small.
I just wondered where the line is drawn where people cant cry recast ?
Surely everything aside from scratch built or cast from original moulds is recast ?
Even cast from original pieces is recast right ?
Clearly though things aren't seen that way in the community or all the trooper lids for example on the market that derive from a movie helmet would be considered recast Gino,TE,GF,AP etc etc.
But if i for example was to take one of these existing helmets and rework and tweak it here and there i'm pretty confident that with scrutinisation certain tells could be spotted that it was a rework and i would be called a recaster.
Much like Gino saying TM is because according to him the face isnt entirely his own sculpt.(no proof i'll stress just using that as an example)
So what seperates reworking and recasting is my question ?
And yes this should be moved