Barbarellany opened this issue on Mar 27, 2004 ยท 97 posts
hauksdottir posted Mon, 29 March 2004 at 5:00 AM
DAZ is getting very good at taking what is not theirs to take... must be the practice. Unless DAZ has written permissions from each and every copyright holder, this is an extremely foolhardy thing to do. From what I have heard, most of the people who are being ripped off don't even know about it... yet. Growing a market is one thing. Assuming that everybody is just as greedy and will give up their rights for a few pennies more is something else again. Those right-clickers are not going to stop at the product pages or at the pop-ups... they will go for the galleries as fast as a mouse can click. And those artists aren't even going to benefit from any possible sales. Nothing but heartache as they try to retrieve what DAZ has so casually given to the public domain. After all of these years of copyright problems, with art being tubed or slathered over web pages by people who pretend not to know English, and publication of thefts in these various forums, I would like to think that there was at least a minimal amount of knowledge about copyright law... especially from a company which has fought so vigorously to protect its own copyrights. Carolly