Forum: Vue


Subject: using scenes from the content CD of vue

estherau opened this issue on Feb 17, 2005 ยท 36 posts


forester posted Fri, 18 February 2005 at 7:58 PM

Estherau, you were very good to ask. This is probably a good mental exercise for us. Estherau wants to take one of the scenes available on the Vue "Extras CD" and publish it as part of her novel, to which she presumably will establish a copyright in her name. Lets say she wanted to do this without permission of the owner of the scene. So, now the scene becomes copyrighted in her name as part of her novel. Some are saying that this is OK, because it would be just the "render of the scene" that she is copyrighting, as part of her novel. She rendered the scene out on her computer. She now gets to own that "render" and use it in her novel. Following this logic, if I had a scene and I happened to get hold of Estherau's novel in electronic form, I could then print her novel out along with my scene pictures, and claim that novel as my own now. I could then copyright her novel as part of my Vue scene. Cool, yes! Estherau would be very happy with this arrangement, yes?