WTH! I got an Email from Ali advertising a KO of @admiraltyphoon’s MOC! This is an absolute abuse of creativity and the LEGO community. And AliExpress SHAMELESSLY just did it. Like nothing. They are taking advantage of the fact that MOCs have no licences. No copyright. Is it illegal? Probably. But they don’t care. We need to raise more awareness of this butchering of MOCs and bring it to the public eye. Shame on them!
2,400円 for instructions. What a great gift! I will print them to put on my desk. What a great display! Of course, I will need buy a printer and learn how to use it first. So educational! Unfortunately, now I have a printer on my desk, so I do not have room for my instructions display any more. So sad!
People have been doing this for years, selling other people’s creations. Sure, it probably scams some people, but no one is going on Aliexpress to look at cool mocs. People who want to see cool mocs will find them on here, or on deviantart, or wherever, where they’re (usually) properly credited to whoever actually made them. People who want to get scammed and buy cheap knockoffs go on aliexpress.
If someone posted one of my mocs on Aliexpress, i wouldn’t care. All my friends and Rukah are on here and already know i made it. If anything, it’s free publicity and it means something i made is popular, if people actually buy it.
A friend sent me the link to this topic, I can’t believe I hadn’t noticed the email notification.
Thanks for bringing this up, it’s shameless honestly (even more so the fact that they’re just selling the free PDF ins. I made). I’ll see if I can do something about it but considering it’s aliexpress I’m not expecting much.
