shedofjoy opened this issue on Jun 22, 2005 ยท 274 posts
Jim Burton posted Thu, 23 June 2005 at 10:30 AM
Thanks guys! Her head is only bigger because it is scaled up by default, most all of the Poser figures look like pin-heads to me, especailly if you go by the classical 8 or 7 1/2 "heads high" proportions. You can always scale it back, I even include a pose that does that... As to derivative, it isn't for me to say if she (Renda) is or not, and bearing in mind IANAL, let me say from the standpoint of sombody who has created both derivate (Low-res Lori) and non-derivate figures: If you shrink-wrap mesh over any part of V3's figure, you have a derivative figure, even though the polygons are different, you have just stolen the shape. Ditto if you just bought it into the modeling program as a template or other modeling aid. It might be possable to get around this part if you first modeled from scratch, got the figure up to finished, or near finished status, and then modifed it to match V3's shape. I'd think you better be able to prove this, though. From a legal standpoint, it might be best to offer both a "standard" and a "V3-like" version of the figure, as I think Dcort has done on some of his.