I've tried for years to explain that it's not the WWII airplanes that is the issue here- it's that "Things" Northrop-Grumman Corporation owns rights to are in contest
the fact that these things are WWII vintage aircraft has nothing to do with it. If it helps to clarify it, imagine that the "Things" are brand new products they just unveiled yesterday. Even if those things are not critical to national Defense, or secret
Their lawyers want to set their own precedents, by bringing legal weight to bear if somebody even looks like they might take liberties with something NGC owns.
They do this to set a precedent they themselves use later on- When X law was violated it meant that Y amount of money was due us because of infringement of Z
that way, they know to the penny how much they can and will sue for when somebody tries to steal something from them for real
Avinimus-
you made a statement before about how we have "Rights" to display our history. Can you be a little more clear on this? I posted that was an insane notion before, and here's why:
Lots of things that I don't have the right to display are part of my national history. I don't have the "Right" to re-enact the Boston massacre for example. I don't have the "Right" to make a video game about capturing run-away slaves in 1850s Alabama. I don't have the "Right" to sell prints of the assaults on 10 year old girls and grandmothers in Nanking
These things are not "Rights". The right to free speech does not guarantee my right to offend or cause distress. There's an old saying: 'you can't yell "fire" in a crowded theatre'
Well...why not?! I'm an American! I have FREE Speech!! It doesn't work like that. Lots of Americans think it does, but they are sadly wrong. And that hasn't ever been the intent of Free Speech
Do I have the Right to try to express my Art in the above ways? Yes. But that doesn't mean I can run around doing anything I want to. "Free Speech" is constantly abused- "I have a Right!" Well, most times, that just means "I am entitled to say what I want or do what I want, no matter what!"- and that's not so
Nobody "bought" the rights to History. that's way out of proportion and out of context
A company designed a plane. They own the design. 70 years go by- suddenly, and somehow, they do not own those rights to control their own design anymore? Preposterous
Imagine you're making a racing game about Ferraris
Now, imagine what Scuderia Ferrari will say if you try to do that without securing permission, and if saying "Well this car was made 50 years ago!" will sway them
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