Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: free stuff,non-commercial only.just bloody well say so up front.

SoulTaker opened this issue on Apr 19, 2008 · 284 posts


Conniekat8 posted Sun, 20 April 2008 at 3:17 PM

Quote - What I am saying is” IT IS VERY IRRITATING having found an item that you feel will add something to an image you are creating. To check the details on the detail tab. Only to find the complete opposite in the read me.

If you'e hoping to do any commercial artwork, you're going to have to get used to spending a fair amount of time on checking copyrights and usage permissions. It's about as fun and entertaining as doing taxes, but all of us whom do any commercial artwork HAVE to do it. Once you venture on the commercial side, you'll have to put some work into things that you don't like doing.... like copyrights paperwork.

Renderosity unfortunately doesn't have 'some rights reserved' category, or small time commercial use' allowed, and those like me whom choose 'Non-Commercial use' checkbox end up having to put up with 'hate mail' about being stingy for not allowing commercial use, before people even bother to read the readme - which specifies that most 'poserdom' related commercial use is actually allowed, and in most cass commercial license is granted with no royalties, or even credt asked.

I understand the frustration, but I have a hard time sympathizing with it, because I and everyone else doing commercial graphics have to shut up and put up with the same frustrating process, and then some. (like if you offer freebies, not only that you have to do what you're doing, you also have to listen to people bemoaning that they have to do the same.)  Yeah, the freebies come packaged in every which way, and using them for commercial stuff can be a PITA.

At some point, commercial artists discover that there's a fair amount of value in commercially packaged products with a lot of items whose copyright and terms of use are very clear.

Hell, I'd love to use other people's freebies too, and make money off of them, and not have to worry about paperwork and copyright details. And I'd love to have a Pink Pony and a Rolls Royce with that as well.

Hi, my namez: "NO, Bad Kitteh, NO!"  Whaz yurs?
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