Re: [RCSE] War contractors making military models a royalty pain - was: "...Killing the Kit Business"

[Dee Smith]

Quoting from the article, "The company wants to ensure that the models are accurate, high-quality and safe, Adams said.". (Adams is a Lockheed Martin spokesman.) Notice the last word, he says "safe". They don't want to get sued as a deep pocket when someone gets hurt by one of their "unapproved" models. Make the royalty high enough and no one will sell the models. Therefore, all models made are unapproved and Lockheed Martin has no responsibility. Follow the big money. Dee Jimmy Andrews wrote: Someone who was probably unware of the "killing the kit business" discussion over the last few weeks, sent this to me. http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-modelplane14.html               RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News.  Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED].  Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.  Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format