sixus1 opened this issue on Jun 28, 2005 ยท 430 posts
Eternl_Knight posted Tue, 28 June 2005 at 9:31 PM
Blackhearted, sorry dude - but Rendo is more than "Clint". Rendo is a corporation, a separate legal entity. I don't care who "personally" made the decision to rip off V3 - Rendo "the legal entity" made the decision and released the product. Look at the similarities of the mesh to V3 & look at the JP's. Whether ClintH made the decision or not - "Rendo" deliberately developed & released a V3 clone using data protected by the DAZ EULA. And given the fact that the similarities to V3 are so noticable (even without the CR2 s being highlighted as an only slightly modified copy) - it is beyonod "reasonable doubt" that a V3-alike was not requested. I feel sorry for your efforts having gone into this Blackhearted. But this is not a case of "if this is an infringement" - this is an obvious infringement. The only way that Rendo can dig their way out of this is by either licensing the V3 mesh & JP's from DAZ for this purpose (a laughably insane idea, I know) or by pulling the figure. The fact that the JP's are an obvious copy combined with the fact that the mesh so closely resembles V3 puts too big a cloud of doubt over the mesh itself not having been developed using the V3 mesh as a reference. DAZ could easily sue (& win) based on the surrounding facts. As for my "hostility" - yes, I am feeling hostile. As I mentioned - deception does that to me. EK