Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Where is the line drawn?

littlefox opened this issue on Nov 27, 2004 ยท 129 posts


ynsaen posted Sun, 28 November 2004 at 7:50 PM

"It is not a trademark, ideas cannot be copyrighted, (neither can places or names even if fictional) Just change the color and the pose of the pic...it is not as if she took the mesh from ffx2 and tweaked it." Actually, the paine character is trademarked. I just looked it up. Twice, in fact. Fictional places and names can be trademarked if they serve to identify a source of goods or services. And Trademark is specific. It is NOT the outfit that is causing the problem. It is the marketing of that outfit. This isn't about llf's stuff, or france's stuff, or Square's stuff, or sony's stuff, or microsoft's stuff or rendo's stuff. This is about marketing. This is about using familiarity with a particular product in order to sell more by direct association. It's about misappropriation of trademark. Not one merchant against another.

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)