Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Question About Copy Right

Tymbo opened this issue on Aug 24, 2001 ยท 14 posts


timoteo1 posted Fri, 24 August 2001 at 9:38 PM

Nance is close to the mark. THe hog itself being copyrightable is a non-issue. Just like the form of a F-16 fighter or heck, a Sears screwdriver for that matter. Look at it this way ... if you took a picture of your car, say a Corvette, and started selling the picture on Ebay to fans of Vettes, you'd every legal right in the world to sell that picture. Where you get into trouble is if you started marking things with the company's logo (or even the car logo in this case). OR, to another extreme if you started making your own Corvettes (if you had that capability) and selling them as Corvettes you would defintely have violated copyright law, as well as a few others. Simply making a image of an existing product or item is NOT copyright infringment. What you call it though is another story and that is where the line is really blurry.