JHoagland opened this issue on Jul 05, 2007 · 92 posts
stonemason posted Fri, 06 July 2007 at 10:57 PM
Quote - There is the world of difference between infringing an aircraft manufacturer's patent rights and simply creating a 3D software model, the sole purpose of which is to help in the creation of images.
I thought the sole pupose was to profit from those 3dmodels..in this case profit from someone elses IP.
Lockheed has been at this for several months now(there's a thread at cgtalk about Military-meshes.com receiving a C&D)..& I fully expect other big companies to turn there eye on the internet..there's way too many content creators who are profiting from other peoples designs & it cant go on forever,
so if you've had a C&D because you've been selling someone elses designs..all I can say is.. tough titties :P..make something original instead :-),or talk with Lockheeds marketing dpt about licensing said IP,they might even offer a license that's more in-line with the profits you'd expect to make