Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: "Space: 1999" branded item in Free Stuff section

JHoagland opened this issue on Mar 04, 2006 ยท 39 posts


JHoagland posted Sun, 05 March 2006 at 11:49 AM

To be fair, I've never heard of Space 1999 I knew this was coming... and this shouldn't be an excuse for letting things slip by. If you're in the process of approving items, it's safe to assume that you're connected to the Internet. And if you're connected to the Internet, it's safe to assume that you'll be able to access Google or other search engines to see if "Space: 1999" is mentioned as a copyrighted name on at least a few of the 600 billion web pages in existance. And no offense, but the excuse of "I've never heard of it" is almost an open-door for people to upload obscure things (with copyrighted names) to the Free Stuff section and see how long it stays there, un-noticed by admins who don't know about pop-culture. And as Khai, said, why are free items held, if the mods aren't checking for copyrighted names? The Babylon 5 items were placed quite some years ago, before Renderosity was aware of all the legal implications. Actually, my "Doctor Who" branded item (the TARDIS) was uploaded long before the new copyright policy, yet that was deleted immediately when the new policy took effect. Is this another case of the admins not knowing that "Babylon 5" was copyrighted name? --John


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