No, you are not wrong, Bruno.

When I make models for sale at Cornucopia, I often click on the "Forbid Export" setting in the "Edit Object" window, ... if I do not want the purchaser to use the model in a program other than Vue.

In my case, I do this because I always sell models placed at Cornucopia at a deep discount. That is, all models that I sell at Cornucopia, I price for much, much less than the cost to me of textures, my time and my software-hardware costs. I then may make other copies of the model in *.obj file format, and sell them at places like The3DStudio or Turbosquid for a "normal" price.

My reasoning is that if a customer wants to use the model in any and all applications that can import an *.obj model, such as what happens when a model is sold on sites other than Cornucopia, they certainly should be allowed to, but then they should pay a normal (market) price for the model.

When we model builders sell a model in the normal market place, we do have to take into account our software, hardware, research and texture purchase costs. Our models have to be priced in such a way that we can cover these costs, or we cannot afford to make models. Most freelance model-builders that I am aware of are either working at cost, or are making perhaps a 5-percent to 10-percent profit - just so that you know. In my case, I usually am taking a 35-percent or greater loss in models that I place at Cornucopia. I usually take a 25-percent loss in models I place here at Renderosity. In both cases (Rendo and C3D), I do this because I feel that I am part of the fellowship of Vue users.

(All this information is just so that you know how some of us model-builders reason through our use of "Locked To License" and "Forbid Export" settings.)

And, as you said, vendors at Cornucopia should write in the product description that a model cannot be exported, if they have assigned the "Forbid Export" setting to the model. But some vendors may forget or be so lazy that they do not provide this information.

The "Forbid Export" setting has no association with the "Locked To License" setting that we vendors choose to place on our models sold at Cornucopia.

There are two advantages of the "Locked To License" setting for the customer. One - such models can be purchased with a Cornucopia Voucher, and two - such models are priced more cheaply than any models that are not "Locked To License."

Even though a model may be "Locked To License", and be cheaper for the customer, the maker of the model receives the same amount of revenue for the model, whether it is "Locked To License" or not.  The vendor takes the loss in the price of "Locked To License" models.  An Unlocked model is priced higher, and this is the price the Store and the Vendor split. A Locked model is priced less - the Store takes the same amount as if the model were "Locked" and maker of the model receives a little less than if he or she had caused the model to be "Locked To License."

The original purpose of the "Locked To License" mode was to provide a good and very secure method of copyright protection for the model-builder. If a model is locked to your Vue license on your machine, you cannot transfer it around freely to other Vue users, and thus, it cannot fall into bad hands and be pirated easily.

Vendors like me who use the "Locked To License" setting often do not provide the same model in a "Standard" mode. So, like Bruno, I am confused as to what is meant by the screenshot provided by Mazak. When I place a model into Cornucopia in "Locked To License" mode, I mean for it to be that way.  Like Bruno, I'd like to check on this too, but I believe that Cornucopia cannot convert a model from "Locked To License" to "Standard" mode without the consent of the original model maker. So, I suspect that not every model can be converted to "Standard" mode as the screenshot suggests.