geep opened this issue on Mar 28, 2005 ยท 95 posts
Acadia posted Mon, 28 March 2005 at 2:54 PM
I answered this on another forum here, but I'll repost here: I know the answer to this is yes because there was a problem about a figure having vicky's hands or something, posted in the Poser forum. However, personally I think it's stupid. So a skull cap has the same shape and dimensions as another. I don't see that being a problem if the rest of the figure is different and unique. It's a very small portion of the whole. I can see if someone did the reverse and used the entire figure, changing only the nose, or a finger or the ears, or in this case a skull cap. But the percentage of the figure being discussed is less than 1% of the whole. It's like someone painting the Leaning Tower of Pizza and then discovering someone else painted it too and both painted images lean at the exact same angle. Another example are cooking recipes. How many published recipes are there out there for kung pau chicken? Most have the same ingredients with a slight variation in some items as to quantity, with many ingredients being the same proportion. I think this copyright stuff is getting over the top. Someone could build something from the ground up and by some freaky co-incidence happen to get the same sequence of numbers for a small portion of their figure and suddenly find themselves in a lawsuit because someone claims they discovered that sequence first. I'll venture a good guess that everyone here has photocopied a page or pages of book (IE: for term paper research, or a recipe etc.), printed a page found online, taped a movie off of the television... all considered copyright violations
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