Legal issues over depicting World War Two equipment

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Originally Posted by Zoom2136

All of this is C.R.A.P.....

If a company is so afraid of setting a precedent... they just have to GRANT 1C (or any other company) limited right to use image and depiction of their product.... This is called licencing... it can be made for a symbolic amont....

What would prevent such a thing is trying to squeeze all the $$$ they can from a product. So a company will want in exemple $$$/copy sold (ship, produced, etc). Don't forget these planes still bring in money from licencing (miniatures scale models, collectors items (books, posters, calenders), etc.). And you would be suprise how much $$$ they still generate.

So... precendence setting... please...

Look up US Constitutional Law sometime and get an eye opener about Precedence in US Law. Obviously this is not a Constitutional case but the fact of the matter is yes, US law does look to precedent

You want to believe it was greed? OK

Let me ask you just one question:

what made NGC follow this course of action? Put another way: Why did NGC start to care about all this?

Think about the answer a minute...what event was it that made NGC take notice...