EBay selling fake Lego ?

[Richard Dower]

Just saw a listing for Technic parts that don't officially exist in the colour shown in the ad.

What is the legal status of this ?...are people allowed to sell fake/clone Lego, as long as they state it's not an original item ?

[deraven]

The short answer is yes.  If it's in violation of Lego's IP (complete clone sets & instructions), or if it's a clone product that the person is marketing at genuine Lego (fraud) that's an issue.  If it's just Lego-compatible bricks from whatever source, then it is what it is.  There's other moral arguments with some of the details on that, but not a whole lot more in the way of legality.  Plus, eBay is the Wild West for those kinds of things so there's always a scam of some sort going on.  Caveat emptor.

One other thing to mention, however, is that there are some genuine Lego parts out there that were never released in a given color but were from special Legoland model shop builds, test runs, etc., and sometimes have questions about how they came to be in the possession of the person selling them, but that's much less common than clone parts in general.

[GrahamSlam]

Just now, Richard Dower said:

Just saw a listing for Technic parts that don't officially exist in the colour shown in the ad.

What is the legal status of this ?...are people allowed to sell fake/clone Lego, as long as they state it's not an original item ?

They're most likely knockoff or counterfeit. Knockoff must be clearly stated and is often illegal due to copyright infringement, while counterfeit or listing a knockoff as legitimate is illegal altogether.

[Lakop]

There are a lot of "fake" lego around at the moment. However, amazon is selling bags of official Lego bricks and beams by Lego.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/LEGO-Technic-beam-black-pieces/dp/B01D3N9T8E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1547320661&sr=8-1&keywords=lego+beams

If you search for Lego bricks by colour (ie: lego grey bricks) you get a good result.

H