Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Intellectual Property and Releases (Or Who Owns What?)

bast opened this issue on May 25, 2000 ยท 18 posts


bast posted Fri, 26 May 2000 at 11:53 PM

First off, most of you are apparently, including Scott, all saying about the same thing I am. Thanks Chad for hopping in, since it is good to have another companies input always :) What I was aiming to accomplish though here, and on all the forums I have been placing the same post was sort of a pre-writeup of the "rules" of using the store :) We at this time will NOT be accepting any consignments or donations that are not also royalty free. It frees up our purchasers and our artists both we feel, but mostly at this particular time, since the store is not able to afford much in the way of legal fees, it frees us up to help out the largest portion of you. Later, who knows, we may make a special area of the store for items that are not royalty free. But one small step at a time, eh? I have seen various posts on giving credit where it is due, other posts from those who felt somehow that the downloads in the free area did them no good at all since they could not make any money off those things or else it all went to someone else.. things like that. I am not sure which models were the ones that were the concern in free stuff. My own free stuff models have been only restricted on redistribution for sale of of the geometry of my creations :) Render happy, make your millions, don't send me a dime :) But DO PLEASE mention my name in your credits :) I love to read credits, it is a passion of mine :) I would love to see this same spirit in the store, and whilst I stand here to run it, it is the spirit I want to let you know it is being run under :) I also though feel it is VERY wrong to resell the geometry in any form. That is electronic code in a sense. Not a rendering. Thus my saying one cannot resell or redistribute the code which means the cr2, the obj, the prop, you understand, even if you did do some mods to it, without getting the express permission of the person who you bought it from :) This enables us all to render happy :) This weekend sometime, when I get a moment, my bf and I WILL be posting ALL over the place, sample license agreements we suggest that ALL our store participants, both buyers and sellers read. These take a while to write... when one is also a mom, a gf, a worker bee, and in the middle of a birthday depression :) Oh... who is my bf and why him? He is a contract and copyright lawyer. No one is obligated to use our sample licenses. No one is obligated to put items with us for brokering, and no one is obligated to buy. Part of the plans I have for the store is just as you may click on the thumbnail picture to get more details of the object for sale, you may also click a link to read the exact licence that is with that product. I cannot force folks to not build in their own provisions, other than to say I have no plans to accept anything that is not royalty free at this time. I hope this helps, Lizzy