littlefox opened this issue on Nov 27, 2004 ยท 129 posts
Moonbiter posted Sat, 27 November 2004 at 12:16 PM
Mob probably wasn't the right term but Lady Little Fox has pointed out a serious issue in the community and from the way the original and the first reply was written it seemed to me that it was meant to attack only DAZ. I apologize to Lady Little Fox for the impression I gave by saying whiping up a mob. Without a doubt this is something that needs to be addressed within the whole community and after thinking about it, this probably falls more under intellectual property rights than true copyright. No one wants to be a party to violating a copyright and while I personally have no problems buying clothing, items and gear that are based off of movies, games or other 'copyrighted' materials if they are 'look alikes'; the question is just how close is to close? In most cases I think it would be something that has to be determined by the copyright holder. They are the ones who maybe damaged by a look alike. Tossing it out here before going to Square-Enix does more to hurt DAZ's rep and bottom line than it does to fix the issue. If Square had been notified and said 'Hey! You can't do that" and DAZ ignored them, then I could see going to the forums to make the community aware of the issue. But at this point we can only speculate if there truely is an violation of intellectual property or copyright.