MachineClaw opened this issue on May 23, 2003 ยท 207 posts
AnnaMarie posted Tue, 27 May 2003 at 12:30 PM
Hi Guys! (and Girls!) Dan Farr of Daz mentioned I was going to stop by the forum, and so here I am. It took me a while to read through (almost) all your messages; my God this has brought out a lot of you to talk about this! Well, anyway, all the points Dan brought up are right. But, you obviously still have concerns and questions, and I think one of the problems is that we on our end don't know yet what to expect; what all is going to come out of this. Therefor as a "public persona", I do have to protect myself of course for the worst case scenario, and Daz has been wonderful in assisting me with that as well. I think as worried as many of you are regarding the EULA, it is only to protect myself from something that I absolutely cannot and should not agree with which many of you say you understand already. I think you all are nice people that really won't want to do something bad or take advantage of me. As long as it all stays in good taste and you're making something nice and pretty, I'm all for it. If somebody has made something great out of my morph and published it here on the forum or somewhere else, will I sue right away? Of course not! I'm from Holland, we're not as sue happy there as people here. I in fact would love to see it, so I'd appreciate you show me the images you've made. If you want to show of your art of me on a website to promote yourself or something, cool and fine, I'd just appreciate a banner link back to my site (www.annamariegoddard.com). The only few things that I'm worried about though is that first of all the biggest thing; don't make something demeaning, degrading, awful or pornographic (no explicit wide open leg shots) with my name attached to that. (If you're not sure if something is too explicit or anything else, just email me the image amg@annamariegoddard.com and I'll let you know, and please respect my answer). So, that's the most important thing to me; don't use my name with it. If there's something that you want to do commercially with your art and want to use my name, we can talk about it and probably come to an agreement, no big deal. So, don't let this hold you back or think I'll be suing right away as I won't, unless again it is something that is absolutely, positively not tolerable (and I think your gut will tell you if it is). As long as it's not commercially sold, it's nice and cool, then you can use my name with it, I don't have a problem with that. It is and stays a morph made of me, so it is not actually me as I am in a photograph or video, so it's all cool. So, if we can all stay in these boundaries of doing something nice with the morph, go right ahead! It is me, but it isn't, you get my drift. If you use some parts of me, and parts of "Victoria", go right ahead. I don't think at that point you'd want to name it "Anna-Marie" anyway, right? If the image doesn't look like me anymore, but let's say it has my breasts, my mouth and my navel and you sell it, will I sue you? No. Bottom line, don't worry, we are not looking to sue anybody (and Daz won't either), just respect me, be creative with me in a nice way, ask me if you're not sure about something, work out a deal with me if you have a great idea to make me the next Lara Croft and you do want to use my name, and if we can all stay cool, there are really no worries. I'm actually pretty easy going ;-) xoxoAnnaMarie p.s. DAZ is working on a revised EULA that reflects this/my position.