Becco_UK opened this issue on Aug 18, 2004 ยท 110 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 18 August 2004 at 11:43 PM
If one person created a prop for poser, (an EXAMPLE, people), and another person came along and ALTERED that prop, the ALTERED VERSION would, in MOST CASES, become the property of the person who altered it.
If this were true, then someone could purchase any product in the Marketplace, make a few changes to the product, and then offer it for sale in a modified form.
To coin a phrase: it don't work thataway.
As for the Denny's example: Denny's did not "refuse service" to anyone -- rather, they discriminated in the sense of forcing certain people to pay for their food before they would serve them -- while at the same time permitting other customers to eat first, and then to pay afterwards.
If everyone in the restaurant had been forced to pay first (I.E. - treated equally) -- then the Denny's case probably wouldn't have gotten very far: as no discrimination would have occurred. Of course, such a practice would have been bad for business, but it would not have been discrimination.
In any case -- a website is not a "public accommodation" in the same sense that a restaurant or a WalMart store is -- anymore than a commercial wholesale warehouse like Sam's Club or Costco. Such businesses are perfectly within their legal rights to restrict access to members only.
Besides which -- Renderosity doesn't provide public restrooms.