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Ballistical
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Hi all,
This isn't strictly about composite products but I thought someone on here might be able to help me.
I was planning to buy the composite moulding kit and try using existing OE car/bike components to create moulds. I was then planning to begin selling the moulded carbon fibre parts to customers as an after market option. However, a friend recently asked me about the legal issues with doing this. Since I am effectively using someone else's design to create my mould I would be replicating parts exactly. Would this conflict with any copyright on the original part?
Also does anyone know if any carbon fibre components to be mounted on vehicles (particularly exterior) need to undergo any sort of testing in order to be legal for road use? I presumed that as long as they were not conflicting with vehicle characteristics such as steering angles, suspension travel, lighting angles etc. that all would be good but I'm not one hundred percent. I am talking about items such as motorbike fairing, car badges, grilles, spoilers etc.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Cheers.
Alex
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Ballistical
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13 Years Ago
i think the part would have to be slightly different. this could be a very small difference like a...
japcarmaniac
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13 Years Ago
what country are you in?? Generally in the UK you will get away with copying steel panels no...
Warren
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13 Years Ago
Thanks for the responses! Warren, I am based in the UK, where copyright is taken pretty seriously....
Ballistical
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13 Years Ago
[quote][b]Ballistical (27/02/2012)[/b][hr] In terms of selling for "off road use", does this mean...
Joe
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13 Years Ago
If you wanted to claim your part was safe for road use then you would need to have some form of...
Warren
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13 Years Ago
I'm planning to make a Goalie helmet (Field hockey goal keeper helmet) I will use an OBO (brand of...
matthieutje65
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13 Years Ago
from a copyright point of view, as long as its not identical you will get away with it. From a...
Warren
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13 Years Ago
hehe yeah your right! I Have some contacts with a testlab so I hope in best case to be able to...
matthieutje65
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13 Years Ago
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