RetroDevil opened this issue on Oct 27, 2007 · 93 posts
Penguinisto posted Mon, 29 October 2007 at 9:34 AM
Quote - Sorry, my mistake.
Regardless, the opinions of seasoned merchants ARE NOT law. Characters created from Dialed morphs are perfectly legal. Frowned upon by some for whatever reason, but not illegal.
The reason it is frowned on is pretty simple: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2718127 That, and others like it... If you sell something based on simply spinning the supplied dials, then someone else can do the exact same thing, with the exact same settings, and there is literally no copyright violation. Diva V4 is an admitted spin-up - yet there's the merchant, complaining about someone else possibly using the same settings in another product and asking if it's a copyright violation (I'll give him/her credit that much - they asked, not demanded). But - there's no copyright on dial settings. If you built a specific morph from magnets or vertex manipulation (e.g. you built the dial itself), then you can copyright it. As it is, I could literally buy Diva V4, give the dial settings away for free, and nobody (yes, nobody) can come after me for doing so, because the merchant in that case has specifically said that s/he only used existing dial settings to create the shape. (NOTE! The textures are his/hers, and are copyrightable, so don't be stupid about it, plz). /P