Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Free advice for Freebie makers

Helgard opened this issue on Dec 01, 2004 ยท 73 posts


sdw1952 posted Thu, 02 December 2004 at 9:41 AM

The fact is that most copyright/trademark holders won't care too much if you make a model of thier product/billboard/image - until you either use it in a way that they find offensive or degrading to the product/billboard/image (ie using a CCC billboard in a Pepsi commercial) or you use it to make a lot of money at which point they either want a share or want it all (normally the latter)

In general american copyright law has become so redicules it is considered a joke by most sane people and has produced some really stupid (and profitable for the lawyers) cases.

As for a render being the same as a photograph - I think you will find that falls down on the arguement that to produce the render of any trademarked item you must first have modelled it (the same is not true of photography.

Message edited on: 12/02/2004 09:44