Quote - You know -- the one thing that I've noticed about these copyright law threads is that they never seem to resolve anything, and that one of them pretty much sounds like another.  And I've yet to hear of a single, genuine copyright lawsuit that's been filed over any alleged copyright violation that's occurred within the confines of the Poserverse.  Perhaps such a thing has actually happened -- but I've yet to hear of it.  Or of its conclusion, if it has.

The worst that's ever happened that I'm aware of has been community ostracism & banning from various marketplaces of the alleged violator.  That's it.  No one's every actually been sued, to my knowledge.

Exactly. That's why I wonder why people make such a big deal out of someone putting a restriction or two on their freebies and sayig that the poor nwebies are going to learn the hard way, like they're in for some sort of danger, or wondering what a court precedent might be.

I've heard of two or three issues within poserworls, like the guy that keeps trying to go after Phil C, and couple other issues aside from waht's been mentioned in this thread.  None of those are involving newbies or someone newbie inappropriately using free items.

Bottom line is, people whom create stuff do get to set terms of use, whether stuff is free or for sale. Thos whom use things need to be aware of terms, whether it's a freebie, purchased item, utility, pice of sowtware, texture or whatever. Especially if they intend to use if for profit. No need for experts, attorneys or a judges to settle this.

It irks me to no end when people try to vilify the freebie providers for setting restrictions for use. You offer something that is free of charge and may help someone, and then they biatch and moan that you haven't given them enough. At the same time, they're not offering anything for free, but complain that there may be a restriction for them making money off of what you gave them. How selfish and ungrateful can one get????
Shit, if someone gave me a proverbial steak, and I was hungry, I wouldn't moan about any unreasonable restrictions... (Like don't shred it and make tacos and sell them around the corner. It's for you to eat it.)

As for other countries... takes time money and effort to enforce those kinds of intelectual property laws. When a general standard of living in a given country is barely above survival, they usually don't have the resources to enforce intellectual property infringements. Even in this country, most of the cost of the infringement enforcement falls on the injured party, and if they're lucky, they may get a small part of it back.

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