Comment by tuna-piano

9 years ago

Wonder if there would be a copyright issue with selling original sets as well? I'm not a lawyer, but I believe in the US you can't copyright a recipe but you can copyright a recipe book.

I wonder if though, down the road, you could setup a web site with the complete inventory of pieces that you cataloged, and let people pick and choose what pieces they want for a specific order.

Then just put the pieces through the hopper to pick/pack individual orders. Maybe get a super accurate scale, weigh pieces when catalogging and weigh the end sets to help ensure order accuracy?

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tuna-piano  9 years ago

Again, I'm not very knowledgable, but I think the first sale doctrine just says it's now your lego and you can sell the lego.

If you start copying the piece assortments ("lego recipes") that lego also sells, that's where I'm unsure that you're in a safe legal spot. Lego put time and effort making sets for specific purposes, and I would think that those "lego recipes" are possibly protected.

Especially if you were thinking of selling a large number of different sets, which would mean you'd be creating kind of a "lego recipe" catalog?

https://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html