"Looking at each pose as a collection of numerical data, I do not see any reason why they cannot be copyright."

According to U.S. copyright law, you can not copyright data.

As far as the license goes - that would be subject to court interpretation. The only reason it's stood as CL has stated it currently is that noone has taken it to court. It's debateable whether files external to the program containing data (in which pose, light and other such data is stored) would be covered by such a license, regardless of whether or not one used the program to help create them - I would not think so. It would be like MS owning the copyright on all documents you create with Word for example. If someone took a license like this to court I don't think it would hold up. This addresses only the stated claim that CL/EF somehow can arbitrate the copyright status of these files - I don't think they can. It does not address the actual creator's copyright relationship to the files which is another matter.

Honestly I think many of the "products" sold in the Poser world are on very shaky grounds re. the licenses they're distributed under and copyright - just my opinion, I know it doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

Message edited on: 11/07/2005 18:33