Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: More on copyright abuse of Poser pictures

Phantast opened this issue on Apr 22, 2003 ยท 65 posts


EsnRedshirt posted Tue, 22 April 2003 at 2:58 PM

As for Disney suing an orphanage, yes that one's true, and I'm sure they didn't like doing it any more than the orphanage liked getting that letter- but the fact is that if they didn't stop them, they risked the character's copywrite becoming "Common Property" and usable by anybody- which is why companies go after "small fry" as much as they go after the big dogs. They also couldn't just let them use the characters for a tiny fee, because they'd already charged other companies character usage, and those companies would balk at not getting the same cheap usage that the orphanage/day care center got. Fortunately, Hanna-Barbara donated free usage of their characters to the orphanage, so it all worked out in the end.