Lawyers Lay Waste to Military Models Industry

[DSchmitt]

I was looking at some diecast airplanes in ToysRUs the other day. Noticed a statement about licensed by Boeing on the box. Strange theplanes were, a British bomber, 2 British fighters, and a Ford trimotor.

[davekelly]

Wayne,

Thanks :)

Dave

[Anonymous]

A corporation's legal department is there in support of the accounting and administrative staff. It is the CEOs of the firms that make the decision to seek intellectual property right compensation, not the lawyers.

Wayne

[davekelly]

Hmmmmm. I don't know how it is in the rest of the country, but here in Lubbock, Texas, the client decides whether or not to sue folks, not the lawyer.

Vssmith,

I love lawyer jokes as much as the next person, but there is one thing to keep in mind. You ever watch those shows on TV where a person was wrongly convicted of a crime? I'm pretty sure in most of those cases it is lawyers working hard to ensure justice is served.

[vsmith]

What do you call 200 Intellectual Property Lawyers at the bottom of the sea?
















A good start.

[IRONROOSTER]

I guess we'll all be modeling USRA designs.

Enjoy
Paul

[DigitalGriffin]

Greed is such a shame in corporate America. I remember when 10% profit for a year was considered acceptable. Now I see multiple earning forcast of 40%-50% operating profit in a lot of corporations. (I guess it's all in the name of increasing stock value for the fat cats up top that own a ton of stock.)

In my humble opinion, licensing is fine. But it should be a token cost. Maybe $.02/dollar. This would defray cost of approving manufactured products by the licensee. After all, you wouldn't want a company marketing a C&O 777 Michael Jackson passenger jet when there was nothing absolutely close in real life would you? *cringe*

[Anonymous]

On Overland Models latest ad, I noted that the new EMD & GE demonstrators were listed as licensed.

Rick

[Leon Silverman]

Maybe the solution is to put Russian military symbols on the planes. After all, the Russians made an exact copy of the Boeing B-29 Super Fortress when one these planes made an emergency landing in Siberia during WWII. Could Boeing demand a royalty on this Russian Copy? Once the modeler buys the kit, what's to stop him from replacing the Russian insignias with USAF insignias?

[Anonymous]

So now we just have to wait until EMD and GE start charging royalties along with all the railroads whose paint schemes are on the locos...great...[:(]

[kog1027]

For those of us that think Lawyers should find something else to do....

http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/2005230.asp

Intellectual Property is rapidly becoming a new swear word.

Mark Gosdin