Wildcard. Take your legal hat off and put your practical cap on for a moment. This is a forum where people come for information. Mostly newbies wanting to know how to do something. There is sharing of information amongst the experienced members too. The best information in here comes from people in the industry. The industry people are also the creators of the composite products on the market. They have invested a great deal of time, money and creative juice in these products. The creative industry people stick together on this subject because the don’t like seeing their work or their colleagues work copied. Regardless of the legal technicalities, industry people consider copying to be stealing. Sometimes they put their heart and soul into creating something new. It can be exorbitantly expensive to protect their creations. And as you so eloquently pointed out, that legal protection is most likely ineffective.
Material suppliers are a different kettle of fish. They will happily tell you how to copy something because they are in the business of selling you materials. The more people that are copying, the more materials they sell.
The irony is that our novice is asking the group who create the products, how to copy those products! He doesn’t have to explain ‘why’ he is taking a mould off a seat to anybody in here, but if he wants the experts to help he needs to motivate them to “want” to help him.
And if you haven’t guessed by now, I am ‘industry people’.
