Barbarellany opened this issue on Mar 27, 2004 ยท 97 posts
TygerCub posted Tue, 30 March 2004 at 4:50 AM
Steve, Your argument for this particular campaign is good business, however, "making the distinction between DAZ and third party products much more clear" is not going to protect your broker's images. Saying DAZ meant well is all good and fine, but what is the company doing to protect its brokers? Although scripts like right-click and source-code-protection are not perfect and can be circumvented, they will be a first line prevention and legal warning to ScreamDesign customers that broker's images are not part of the clip-art deal. Until a right-click and source code protection script is put in place, DAZ has opened the gate to copy all of the images at the store. It's simple human nature to be greedy: a percentage of your customers will not take the time to notice what images belong to DAZ and not a broker. Another percentage will notice and simply ignore the difference with the excuse that s/he miss-read the advertisement. Good intentioned or not, this money-making campaign has the potential to be a serious liability for DAZ. I suggest deeds, not words, to correct this gross mistake.