MachineClaw opened this issue on May 23, 2003 ยท 207 posts
bijouchat posted Fri, 30 May 2003 at 11:02 AM
if i created a morph and texture that looked exactly like you, and put it in freestuff tomorrow, theres nothing on earth that you could do about it... even if i named it 'anna-marie'. you cannot copyright a 'likeness' or the way a person looks, nor a common firstname - therefore it makes the entire license issue laughable.>> move to Germany. do a clone of Michael Schumacher, the racecar driver. Call it that. you'll be called by his lawyers in no time. You know why. He didn't put a copyright on his name. He has it trademarked... Anna-Marie could very likely sue with trademark laws too, but she seems a nice person and its unlikely she'd go after anyone that's not causing her any harm (unlike Michael Schumacher, who sues everyone under the sunshine and keeps an army of lawyers in business over here) just clarifying here, that the name usage EULA has to do with trademark and not copyright better to stay on the right side of the trademark laws, it can be VERY expensive if you do not...