Rabendolch opened this issue on Nov 06, 2004 ยท 9 posts
servo posted Sun, 07 November 2004 at 11:25 AM
My thought on templates (and only regarding templates) is this: Even if the copyright to the template is exclusively Curious Labs' they are NOT likely to mind the free distibution of templates. My reasoning? (1) They offer templates as a free download on the same pages that commercial models are sold on their sites. (2) You need to buy the model for the template to be of any real worth (or in this case, you need to buy P5). (3) If they give the templates away, people will use them to make textures from them, and either sell or give away these textures. People will see these textures in use on the model, see the increased possibilities of the model, and be more likely to go buy the model -- it's essentially good advertising for the base model. If anyone from CL wants to affirm or refute this, I'd be glad to hear it -- this is just my personal business intuition at work. ---