Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: ***Wanna make it into a poster ???

DigitalHandout opened this issue on Feb 08, 2001 ยท 11 posts


bloodsong posted Fri, 09 February 2001 at 9:37 AM

heyas; butch: i believe one copy for your personal use on your wall would fall under fair use. i'm not convinced that digital's offer is within the bounds of fair use under those circumstances, however. it is a grey area. but suppose you download one of my images, and you want a poster of it. i can get large prints of my image, but those cost me $40, so the end price is going to be $50-60 or more. so instead, you go to digital's service and get a poster for $15. digital gets however many cents to pay for the paper, the ink, the percentage of maintenance costs on the copier, plus a nice profit. however, digital does not have my permission to make copies of my work and/or sell them in this manner. you can see that i, the copyright holder, get doodlesquat from this transaction. :) NOTE!!! the above is a HYPOTHETICAL situation, i'm not accusing digital or anybody of doing this or any other copyright-infringing acts.