Ragtopjohnny opened this issue on Jun 14, 2012 · 157 posts
moriador posted Thu, 28 June 2012 at 10:43 AM
Quote - and it is not the govenment or a Berne convention who makes the Law , we are the ones who restrict our selves we make the laws a eula just repeats what we decide . if we recognize that there would be the need for more flexibility we just change them for our own benefits. so it is on the Artists to decide whether it is possible or not .
I live a block from the courthouse, and I guarantee that it is not run by a bunch of artists making up their own rules.
Creators DO have the ability to decide the rules about how their own work will be used. I agree totally. I render stock images and make stock photos available, and I offer them exactly as you suggest. I'm also a big fan of Creative Commons music, and I prefer a lot of it to what is offered by traditional recording studios.
But for the original purposes of this discussion, the OP wants to sell products in this marketplace. And this marketplace has very conservative rules because, like most businesses, it does not want to spend a cent more than necessary on legal hassles, so it is not going to go out of the way to protect a vendor who may very well be using a work under "fair use" rules. It will take the easy way and safe way because that's good business. Any vendor who doesn't like that is, of course, free to set up their own site and sell from there. There's no legal or philosophical restriction. Please don't mistake Renderosity marketplace practices for actual law. It's just good practice if you want to be very safe.
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