mm intellectual property and copyright infringment can be absurd, however in this case its real easy, its e.ons call, if they dont allow it, then its not allowed, regardless of the situation with another company/product, if e.on allows it then it is OK, legaly.

Moraly im with wabe, i woudnt use any of the scenes in v5 and render it as mine, however that is a personal opinion and has litle to do with the law.

So as interesting as this thread is :) we realy need e.on to come forth, because it is entirely up to e.on, and this is where it could get realy interesting.

If e.on doesnt have a legal contract/agreement (which i would be damn surprised if they didnt have) with the artists that created the scenes, then e.on has created a big pool of trouble because that means that even if e.on allowed its users to use the objects the artists could deny it and if it would be used the artist could then sue both e.on and the person using the scene.....

and considering that eons eula doesnt mention one tiny bit about this, we the entire vue community needs yet again a public statement from e.on regarding the agreement between e.on and the original creators of the scenes.

Have to say that its in my opinion quite a bad move on e.ons part not to specify this in the eula. And yes, lawyers are amongst the lowest lifeforms on this planet :)

Message edited on: 02/20/2005 17:20