gsalas opened this issue on Jul 06, 2001 ยท 61 posts
atthisstage posted Sun, 08 July 2001 at 11:37 PM
You know, I work in the theatre as a set designer. I have my portfolio online, and on a couple of occasions, I've seen my work "appropriated" by design students for their work. "But I changed it a little, and that makes it okay!" is usually the defence, but NO, it does NOT make it okay. And for WTB to sit there and say, well, I'm changing this and I'm changing that and that somehow makes it okay overlooks the essential problem here: YOU'RE USING A BASE CHARACTER THAT IS CONTROLLED BY COPYRIGHT. If you want to issue a character of YOUR OWN DESIGN and attach a morph to that, go for it, and may it sell you many times over. But to whine that DAZ won't automatically give you secondary uses to THEIR work is, in my humble opinion, the height of arrogance. Yes, WTB, it's the 90s, and people are finally paying attention because of the internet and its wide spread abuse of copyright issues. If you can't bother to create something original, then don't get upset when people who HAVE come down on you a little bit. "It's the entire 90's", after all.