MachineClaw opened this issue on May 23, 2003 ยท 207 posts
Blackhearted posted Fri, 30 May 2003 at 1:18 PM
"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... " i didnt say name it 'Anna-Marie Goddard, i said id name it anna-marie. you may be able to trademark a name in reference to auto racing, or playboy centrefolds, but you sure as hell cannot trademark a common given name. there are probably hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of anna-maries around the world. with your reasoning i could go and have the name 'Bob' trademarked... then run around suing all of the 'Bob's Diners', 'Bob's Automotive Repair', and other bob businesses, and even people named Bob in the world. id make a fortune. and you cannot copyright the look of a person, or their 'body style'. just as there are many people with the name anna-marie, or michael in the world, there are many people that LOOK a certain way. just because i have brown eyes doesnt mean i can sue everyone who creates a brown-eyed character in the marketplace. or just because im 6'1", doesnt mean that anyone who creates a character and states that height in the description must answer to my lawyers. yes, it may be named anna-marie, and it may look like her, but i could have created the morph after a woman i saw on the subway the other day, and named it after my great aunt anna-marie. however if i created a morph/texture that looked like her, and advertised it as 'Anna-Marie Goddard, Playmate of the Year' or whatever (i dont keep up-to-date with these things), then shed definitely have a case. i dont want to rehash this argument again - daz fixed it, the EULA is perfectly acceptable now, everyones happy - the customers, daz, anna-marie... but i will say that one of the most disturbing and rediculous parts of the old EULA was 'combined with the body shape of anna-marie'... umm, yeah. good luck trademarking/copyrighting a body type. no offense, but AMG isnt that unique - there is only a limited number of ways a woman's body can look and there are millions of women around the world that look just like that.