JHoagland opened this issue on Jul 05, 2007 · 92 posts
mrsparky posted Sun, 08 July 2007 at 12:46 PM
Can I use your models to do comercial renders now? Yep - in the same way you can use the daz blackhawk, 3dc jaguar cars, or the F-16 as sold here.
shouldn't your readme say for private use only so the customer doesn't get burned? Nope. Why should it ?
If I thought that buying something, or using a freebie, could cause me a serious problem, I'd check it out 1st.
Do you think Turbo Squid is just picking on you?
It's nothing personal. Lockheed and other companys are getting tough on a lot of folks not just in the 3d world.
I'd come after you or the broker.
You'd be welcome to try. Thats not a offensive or rude comment, its because this model (as an example) was made by 2 people from different countrys. Each of which have different laws regarding consumer protection and copyrights.
If a brokerage wanted to be awkward they could easily include a caveat in the licence agreement limiting any loss or damage to the original purchase price. Thats what film processing shops do to avoid being sued for the commerical value of a film.
they might come and shut you down
Yep they could, but they could also (using the example above) try to shut down daz or here as well under the same grounds.
Also consider the very nature of selling Poser models online. These are intangabile products sold in a virtual environment. Say Lockheed shut down a store by hassling the hosting company, within 24 hours you could be back up and running again with a new host or url. If the owner was being hassled they just assign the rights to someone else. For example when poser pros had copyight hassles they sold to daz.
Plus Ockham is right if a US/European company doesn't supply it then a Chinese compnay will and normally less legally as well.
and I would think the buyer who bought it too.
Why would they ? Theres no money in hassling the little guy.
keep takeing that chance or you don't.
I'm happy to take and so are many other stores. If daz thought their blackhawk or VW would get them closed down they'd have pulled it years ago. Now it's part of the PC club pack.
Khai - an evil mickey mouse - that sounds fun :)