novelist999 opened this issue on Jan 18, 2006 ยท 65 posts
mickmca posted Wed, 18 January 2006 at 8:34 AM
The Goddard clone, for those of you who weren't around then, had some special restrictions because it was based on a real person, and she agreed to pose for the clone on the condition that the product's use would not embarrass, humiliate, or defame her. A reasonable enough request; imagine someone using your image to create degrading pornographic pictures -- a subculture of photo morphing, by the way. Unfortunately, the license is essentially a recipe for non-use. Does being shown eating Wheaties embarrass you? Is being posed in front of a HumVee in a bikini (what, you didn't know they make bikinis for HumVees?) humiliating? Does a picture of you shaking hands with Dick Cheney defame you? Guess who gets to decide? So people did not buy it in droves. It was another attempt to find a way to "make money off this poo-poo." There's big money in celebrity clones. How many testosterone-addled teens of all ages would pay $40 for a JLo they could do, well anything! to? So DAZ tried to come up with a way to pander to that market, by putting all the legal risk in the buyer's lap. Unfortunately, the TATs weren't interested in Anne Marie Goodard, JLo wasn't interested in DAZ, and the rest of us were not as stupid as one might think. M