Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Creature Catalog

x2000 opened this issue on Apr 16, 2006 · 116 posts


gagnonrich posted Sat, 20 January 2007 at 7:13 PM

I forgot to mention that the grey Queen is a discontinued figure, but I posted a query in the old Sixus1 forum and Rebekah allowed me to purchase that and a few of the older characters.  Just post a new query here and maybe somebody at Sixus1 will notice it and respond.

And apologies for the duplicate listing in the second page. That's what happens when I rush.

I've been collecting Poser content for about seven years, but other people have been doing it longer and ought to have even more stuff than I do. My insane efforts to catalog all my content at least makes it easier to see what I have and it allows me to pull out whatever I need when I'm working in Poser.

Unfortunately, a lot of the older content is lost on the net and no longer available. To make matters worse, the haphazard way that readme's were written leaves most of the content unavailable for free redistribution. Website and email addresses aren't listed or, if they're listed, they're no longer valid. The readme doesn't indicate whether or not the freebie can be shared. In most cases, I'd imagine that the author wouldn't mind, but the inability to contact the creator leaves it a moot point.

It would be nice if somebody familiar with copyright law could develop a number of copyright templates, for the different concerns a creator might have with offering free content, so that the content creator doesn't have to try to go it alone. The variety of copyright notices in freebies are frighteningly different from each other. I've read posts where creators thought that allowing commercial usage thought it meant allowing their efforts to be sold and restricted such usage--which had the unintentional side-effect of preventing people from using the content in in a commercial image--which they were okay with. I thought that readme's, that allowed redistribution, would allow usage in images, but somebody in the copyright forum said that the one allowance doesn't allow the other. If the content creator didn't think of adding a statement that commercial image usage was allowed, it's not allowed. Having a number of templates, such as no sales, but commercial images and free redistribution allowed, and so on, would make it easier to have more comprehensive and uniform statements in the readme's. Otherwise, a lot of free content today will be gone tomorrow.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon