That's if you believe it was the lawyer who wrote it, and not just Rick using a beard.
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this thread was entertaining but has taken on a lull - i see both parties being naughty (Pete is selling unlicensed BW stuff without giving a cut to the rights owner, Rick is threatening people wrt Data East and Gottlieb stuff, refuses to declare the extent of his rights, and has a bad rep for continually closing companies down instead of working with them to keep products available) and i see some very knowledgeable legal minds educating the rest of us that copyright/trademark/patent law is a minefield in the middle of a quicksand swamp, protected by a two-headed dog and a reverse centaur.
can someone clever maybe do a Hitler reacts video about it?
Maybe not, maybe if someone else made the case to Williams that they could be getting 10% of everything sold if they'd license to someone else who actually agreed to allow stuff to get manufactured. i'd love it to hear an announcement that another person or company had also been granted a license.
here we are almost in 2017, no reason why ALL pinball parts couldn't be remade - there is now the technology to do 3D printing with tougher materials, computerised everything means fancy printing can be done on paper and vinyl and plastic and wood, more and more people have access to machinery - lathes, mills, routers and other gizmos to shape and bend and cut stuff, laser etching whatnots, all that .... science stuff.
so Rick, why aren't you making it all? obviously there's too much to do it all yourself, so why not contract others to make whatever stuff they want, let people choose what they want to make and how they choose to do it. a button on the PPS website for people to click to tell you what they want to reproduce. then you say how much you want per item to allow this - say it was a cabinet decal for a Taxi, maybe you'd want $35 for each set or something ..... or maybe it's a Whitewater ramp, and you want $20 for each one sold, or a ring for the Shadow and you want $6 a time, ... a motor $9 to PPS.... whatever....all the 'unobtainium' stuff.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/name-unobtainium-parts-for-popular-titles
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/what-parts-are-unobtainium
of course you could demand $10,000 for every item, it's up to you, if you want to actively prevent stuff being made. but then you'd be cutting off your nose to spite your face, ignoring a stream of revenue. you could be making money, and others also making money, and the enthusiasts getting the parts - a win/win/win.
why not? set the price to maximise your profit - selling 300 at $10 each is better than only selling 10 at $100 each; plus the bigger the run, the more sense it makes to the interested other parts-maker (economies of scale). that other maker could pass this IP cost on to the buyer, and they could choose whether to pay it or not. they'd put a link per part on their website, to a list where people could sign up at a potential price - or two lists, 'who'd buy it if it was $100?' and 'who'd buy it if it was $200?', say. then when they had enough people on the list, the parts would get made. you could make a fortune.
Quoted from lordloss:I heard it was 20% of the overall selling price.
well 20% doesn't seem extortionate, to me anyway.
especially if they make it clear to the buyer that this is how the price is made up
so PPS do you think you could possibly consider making the process easier for other parts manufacturers? rather than lying in wait with a lawyer, actually encourage and facilitate work by others?
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