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H.B. 4806, Military Toy Replica Act

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H.B. 4806, Military Toy Replica Act
Posted by Triarius on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 11:16 AM

Surprised this apparently hasn't shown up here. It passed the House, and is now before the Senate. Write your senators!

Anyone who feels awkward about it, I'll be happy to send you a copy of my letters as examples. 

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Posted by SprueOne on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 7:19 PM
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what does that mean? good or bad?

yes, I will like to see some examples of letters.

thanks for keeping up with this and keeping an eye on this issue.


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Posted by Triarius on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 1:27 PM

What it means is that some corporate barons are giving free rein to their greed and avarice, and fortunately there are a few in Congress who are willing to tackle a minor misdemeanor, since they are afraid of the major ones.

This started in the model train sector, when rail companies objected to the use of their corporate logos on model rail cars. There is a little more justice on their side, since these always were, technically, protected symbols owned by those businesses. However, copyright and trademark law generally holds that failure to defend a copyright or trademark when a violation of rights becomes known removes the legal protection. In other words, if you know that someone is using your intellectual property or trademark without permission, and do not tell them to cease and desist within a reasonable period of time, you lose the rights to that property and it enters public domain.

But in the case of military hardware, we paid for it. Secondly, these corporations owe the model manufacturers for decades of advertisement and public relations work that they received at the model companies' expense.

I'll send you a copy of the letter I sent my senators by e-mail. 

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Posted by mfsob on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 5:32 PM

Get your pens out or fire up your e-mail, gentlemen - one thing our elected representatives DO understand is getting a lot of letters about something, especially something as obscure as this. Believe me, it does make a difference.

To get you started: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

I just shot off a brief e-mail to both of my Senators, it took a grand total of 5 minutes. Surely all of us can spare that much time to preserve our hobby!

 

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Posted by DURR on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 6:10 PM

triarius  i too would like to see what you wrote

but  i also have a question/statement

with their failure to enforce their copyrights within a reasonable time, anything pre 1980 should be public domain but any newer stuff they s/b allowed to enforce

but....  IF it goes thru this year that would mean only info on stuff from 1932 and back would be public domain because copyrights are good for 75 yrs

what do you think

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Posted by Triarius on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 7:36 PM

It's on the way by e-mail from this site.

Assuming this bill fails (heaven forbid), what they will be able to enforce will be whatever their lawyers can get away with. Most companies will simply negotiate a fee and raise their prices, and we will pay for something we rightly own, in principle. And no, as I read it, this bill would prohibit them from enforcing copyright on anything purchased by or funded by the US government. 

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Posted by DURR on Thursday, July 12, 2007 6:15 PM

i wrote to mine

i have a couple of real winners for senators

the infamous john kerry

and ted kennedy

kennedy will be easy to influence you just have to cut off his booze supply     lol

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Posted by Triarius on Friday, July 13, 2007 10:02 AM
 DURR wrote:

i wrote to mine

i have a couple of real winners for senators

the infamous john kerry

and ted kennedy

kennedy will be easy to influence you just have to cut off his booze supply     lol

Mine are Barak Obama, who is too busy running for president to be a senator, and Dick Durbin, who replied to my e-mail with one about a completely different subject—that I had never mentioned. So I plan to send my senile senator (senile-ator?) a snail-mail in which I will suggest that his attention span has deteriorated to the point that he should retire.

More than half this country's problems could be solved with term limits. We need to eliminate the professional politician, whose only competencey seems to be getting re-elected and collecting money.SoapBox [soapbox]Angry [:(!]Angry [:(!]Angry [:(!]Angry [:(!]Angry [:(!]Angry [:(!]

Ross Martinek A little strangeness, now and then, is a good thing… Wink

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Posted by Tankmaster7 on Monday, July 16, 2007 3:34 PM

corporations should not be allowed to get away with this. They are allowed too much power already when the __________ Party is in power.

 

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