Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: New T-Shirt Textures for download

Solo22 opened this issue on Sep 16, 1999 ยท 16 posts


PANdaRUS posted Fri, 17 September 1999 at 3:14 PM

So long as you don't go around doing #2 - 3 you should be ok. However I would suggest you be sure to put a disclaimer if you haven't in your downloads. Simply because I know that video game companies (the closest 3d creators that would fit this topic) tend to create games at times that would work out great with a brand name, such as racing games, and find themselves caught in red tape because of it. Take Grand Turismo for Playstation. Sony paid BIG bucks for the RIGHT to use the brand names of those cars. Honda, Mitsubishi, Dodge Viper, etc, were all brand names they had to pay a licensing fee to use. Even though the cars were make believe the companies in NO way wanted their names assosiated with them unless the fee was paid. Sony paid and they gained the rights to say "OFFICIALLY LICENSED CARS" on their packaging. On the same note a few other car racing games came out from smaller companies who couldn't pay the licensing fees for the names and could only make cars with the likeness of real cars...such as the Dodge Viper but couldn't put the emblems or state anywhere that it WAS the dodge viper...like SAN FRANCISCO RUSH 1 and 2 on N64. In the area of clothing I know that one of the Snowboarding games used OFFICIALLY LICENSED Tommy Hilfiger clothing and until they paid the fees to use the name they couldn't make the clothes look (like the styles)or bear the name Hilfiger. We've got a good bunch here so I wouldn't worry too much about Mr. Klein coming down from the heavens and suing you. PAN~