spiffyandstuff opened this issue on Nov 19, 2000 ยท 89 posts
duanemoody posted Mon, 20 November 2000 at 2:04 PM
Ken: Coke paying a million dollars for a product placement is a service fee. It has nothing to do with copyright. If I made a racist movie about killing blacks where the protagonists were swilling Cokes left and right, the company could sue for unfairly associating their product with the movie's message and potentially bringing a boycott of the product -- in other words, clearly definable damages. Or they could sue simply because I was duping viewers into thinking I had a product placement and Coke was OK with my message, defamation of their corporate image. As for Morph Targets, if they've been squished all you have is a data file containing a nebulous (literally) cloud of points with no description of their relationship to one another. No possible way of reconstructing the head's mesh. Period. I would also humbly point out that most of us have invested at least half a grand into our 'hobby,' a pursuit with clear commercial potential. While that is no justification for theft, it's unreasonable to expect and entice us to download high quality freebies and then have no use of them outside of this forum and a few personal web pages.