Forum: Complaint & Debate


Subject: DAZ's Texture Map Copyright Laws

annemarie opened this issue on Jul 18, 2001 ยท 88 posts


atthisstage posted Wed, 18 July 2001 at 5:15 PM

AnneMarie, no doubt that what one should do is the best course of action. But we all know that what one should do and what one sometimes actually does are worlds apart. The unfortunate thing is that, despite what your licensing agreement says, chances are a copyright judge would dismiss your case here: the license would not supercede in this case -- and, again, blame the way the laws are written right now: it's a hole they have yet to address. As I said, it ain't moral and it ain't ethical, but it's not illegal. "What's right and what's fair?" That gets into areas of discussion that move well beyond any issue of copyright. What you see as right and fair could be seen as a gross violation by someone else. It's like the old quandry of: is taking a loaf of bread to feed your family really theft? In its more literal interpretation, you betcha. But is it? As I pointed out on another thread, right now the freebie and store sections of Renderosity are crammed with far more obvious copyright violations than this. The people who put up those models of Transformers et al probably feel there's no problem to it at all -- hell, if one looks at 3d-cc.com, the entire site is a monument to copyright violation. What does that say about community standards?