Does anyone know if images created in Poser are subject to licensing fees if used commercially? In other words, if I create a poser image and it is used in a magazine or website and I get paid for it as an "artist", do I owe Curious Labs some type of fee? Of course, any use of a Morph Target, prop, etc. created by someone else would require of the permission of the creator, but I wasn't sure about a generic poser picture. This is probably in my manual somewhere if I could find it...

No fees. What you render is yours.

It's the same idea as if you had published an article in a commercial magazine or wrote a novel for publication, but you don't owe Corel anything becuase you used WordPerfect to write it. Does that help? Melanie

Likewise, you wouldn't owe fees to Nikon or Kodak if you took photos for commercial publication. Melanie

When you bought Poser, you technically did not purchase the software, (they still owned it, and only they could sell it to Curious Labs) What you paid for was a limited license to use a copy of their software. (Last couple of pages of the P4 manual)

(LOL) Nance, that is almost like saying you don't own your Ford, you just have a right to drive it to work! Funny how they put that in the last few pages, huh?

Nance's version is perfectly right, and (by the way) you don't own the Ford the way you think... You own the hardware (eg the materials it is build of) the same way as you own the Poser CD and the manuals, and you have the right to drive it the same way you are allowed to use Poser. But you don't own the concept of your Ford, so you are not allowed to re-build it, mass duplicate it using the same technology, sell the construction plans to a different company, etc, etc... Funny, isn't it!?

Not to drag out copyright laws again (and again and again...), but Darian's question wasn't whether he owns the software, rather whether he owes a fee on rendered images created in Poser. That question was answered. His images are his own copyright. Go for it, Darian! Good luck. :) Melanie