On 1/16/2022 11:11 PM, John Martindale wrote:
Buy a set of plans from Jeanette like the rest of us have. Support her as she
has us over the decades.
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To eliminate any confusion I'll state it one more time, directly from
Jeanette rand on 1/16/2022.
No one, including Steve Glover, is authorized by Rand Robinson (Jeanette
Rand) to sell plans created by Rand Robinson to the KR series of
aircraft. Steve Glover never owned the "copyright" but was authorized
by Rand to sell copies of plans produced by Rand. That is no longer the
case. Jeanette's words were "the plans are off the market" and I'm
retired". Jeanette has no problem with Steve selling parts or
supporting the design in any way other than selling plans.
While we may personally agree or disagree with that decision it is the
reality we face. While I personally don't see a great liability issue
given 50 years of KR crashes, deaths, and injuries, without any lawsuits
that I'm aware of, it's not my bank account they would come after. I
suspect it wouldn't be hard to prove that any KR flying was not "built
to plans" to avoid liability but again, I have no skin in the game.
On the other hand I personally see no legal issues in someone selling an
unused set of KR plans. You did not sign away your right of transfer of
personal property and I can sell my entire KR, built to plans, sort of,
if I chose.
Finally, I don't expect to see any legal issues, other than someone
producing and selling new sets of plans, with anything that anyone does
with unused plans they own. What legal issue is being violated? IMHO......
I also don't see a problem with someone producing an entirely new set of
plans to a new aircraft incorporating all the changes and calling it a
Gismo 2 and selling those plans. All aircraft have the same parts,
wings, tail, fuselage, spars, landing gear, engines, etc., it's just the
proportions that change. Any substantial change makes it a new and
different aircraft.
Value my "opinions" by the price you paid for them.
Larry Flesner
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