First Japs copy [as per normal], now Yanks too...

ALMOST as good at copying as the Jappers!

http://www.roehrmotorcycles.com/

Looking foward to meeting them on the world's SBK race tracks, LOL

FORZA BAYLISS

 

There's taking ideas from other bikes, then there's blatant copyright
infingement, how can this not come under the later?

 

its got a Harley donk in it, so it should be as reliable as a Duc.

not to mention the over priced merchandise.

bloody good copy then IMHO

mh

 

Because you can't copyright a motorcycle you silly man.

JL

 

There is tis thing called registered design......

P

 

Quite another thing from copyright, though.

Moike

 

Like MV Augusta. LOL

 

No you can't copy right or patent a concept, but you can the method of
production and design.

I still think the real one looks better though!

 

No you can't.

Moike

 

yes dear

mh

 

Well I must have wasted alot of money then!!

So must alot of other maufacturers who patent tooling,

 

Can so too!

 

IP Australia say: " A patent is a right granted for any device,
substance, method or process which is new, inventive and useful. ... You
*cannot* patent artistic creations, mathematical models, plans, schemes
or other purely mental processes. " So you *can* patent a method
provided it is real and not theoretical.

However, you can register a design and you can assert copyright in
artistic works. Motorcycles are certainly registerable designs, and any
modified motorcycle is obviously a work of art and therefore copyright.

 

So who's talking about Patent?

The statement in contention is that a motorcycle design can be
copyrighted. It can't.

Copyright and patent are quite distinct concepts.

Moike

 

He's got you on a technicality, he snuck a patent in there when you
weren't looking !

You can't copyright a design, you can copyright the blueprints though...
you can register a deisgn and patent a unique method of production.

I dunno if the 999 is a registered design, but I doubt it, you'd be hard
pressed to claim it was unique enough to be registerable I would have
thought

JL

 

well, that answers my question of how it can't be. But still, i would
have thought that if you were to create something and put your name to
it you would make it as much your own as possible.

 

That's not an arguement ... that's just contradiction!

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No it's not