Question for future lawyers Forum

[gatesome]

this, pretty much:

I'm not a lawyer but I'm going to roleplay in this thread as if I know everything about being a lawyer anyway.

also, you guys are very angsty and have no sense of humor. get some fresh air!

[03152016]

god i feel sorry for your future classmates

[A. Nony Mouse]

Well, I hope someone gets bingo out of that.

[Clyde Frog]

Well, I hope someone gets bingo out of that.

[gatesome]

Well, I hope someone gets bingo out of that.

you all have made several references that you think have gone over my head, but don't worry i'll take them as compliments

[guano]

As an aside, the mods should probably edit the initial post to avoid the chance that this is copyright infringement (and to piss off the OP)

[Nebby]

Probably not legal, otherwise test prep companies would be doing it.

I don't care about probably. If you were my lawyer would I be paying you for probably?

OP, you have no idea what a lawyer's role is, do you? No lawyer would guarantee something 100%. There's only probably, even if it's a 99%-probably.

[lsatkillah]

AHAHA I like you!

[LSAT Blog]

When seeking legal advice, it's probably better to ask a lawyer than to ask a future lawyer.

I can't tell you what's legal or not. However, I can tell you that LSAC doesn't like this sort of thing and will likely ask you to stop if you do it. My understanding is that *they* consider it to be copyright infringement.

If you want to hear it straight from the horse's mouth, email them at lsacinfo@lsac.org

[anon sequitur]

I know other publishers have done this, I remember seeing a book published by some no name LSAT company and realizing that all the games were eerily familiar because they were just taking old LSAC games and re-writing them with different words. This was way back when, before licensing LSAC questions became standard for third-party publishers.

I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know, but my hunch would be that this is not copyright infringement because you aren't copying any of the words, you're creating a new work. The ideas are the same, but one thing I do remember from my copyright class is that you can't copyright ideas. However, I zoned out a lot in that class and didn't get a good grade, so take it for what it's worth.