Photopium opened this issue on Feb 18, 2003 ยท 39 posts
williamsheil posted Tue, 18 February 2003 at 2:04 PM
Like it or or not, this is just a straight-forward statement of copyright law. I can certainly sympathise with the concern, the temptation to use some of the general purpose facial morphs to tweak things like eye height or the shape of the mouth must be fairly irresitable, but at the end of the day, it is still a definite breach of copyright. What DAZ choose to do with merchants in the situations of minor infractions is, however, still an open question, and in the past they have certainly not been heavy handed in their dealings with infringers. If they want waive the copyright in some limited cases, they still must draw the line (arbitrarily) somewhere, and that does entail a close examination of what is on the market. Anyway, why not view it as an opportunity, rather than a threat. This looks like a market opening for a some entirely non-DAZ general and expression morph packs for the millenium figures. With a waiver of copyright, potential merchants would be more that happy to snap it up. Bill