Legal Issue

TrailRat · 2005-06-02T18:35:38+00:00

A little debate between friends has led me to spill it among thenewsgroup. The debate is over mass produced furniture and thereproduction of it in a private workshop.The question goes along these lines. Is approaching a flat-packsupermarket or furniture store with the intention of copying a pieceillegal.A few of the answers state that it must be a breach of copyright laws.Another answer states that if a carpenter copies a pieceunintentionally, then he'd break a copy right law. Other answers statethat various pieces follow the same basic principles, i.e the design ofa wardrobe is the same on many levels but there are many variants.So whats the opinion of the group. Maybe I'll share it with my friendnext time I'm down the pub. Yes, the debate started over pint.TR