“LEGO Piece Might Infringe Jacket Designer’s Copyright and Trade Dress”
The ol’ “Well they didn’t explicitly say we couldn’t use their creation as a template to make a commercial product, profit off of it, and then not pay them at all” defense. A designer creates a specialty jacket (similar to specialty shirts and other clothes) that he gifts celebrities to wear, to bring awareness of the artists work. In what circumstances would you ever think that you could then create a product, solely based off of that unique design, and then not pay the creator of the design in your business model?
I don’t know what else to say … just another big corporation that can afford to pay artists decided not to, because they thought they could get away with it.
PS Today’s AI Generated picture brought to you by the letter “WTF does that word say?!” and the number “What’s the magnifying glass for”? Input “implied license”, of course. If the AI wins, it’s like if the US knowingly elected someone who said they would be a dictator on day 1. It’s 100% on us being idiots.
