Quote - Ah, yes...the ongoing "intellectual property" discussion.  Oklahoma now is taxing intellect.  Really.  It's rather convoluted but if you have any sort of intellectual property, you now owe property taxes on it.

LOL yeah. I see that being enforced... Just like, in several states, if you go to another state on vacation and buy anything then bring it back to the state you live in, you're supposed to pay taxes on it when you get home. Like anyone does that.

 

In terms of 3D printing, poser models aren't high enough resolution as-is, to be viable for printing. There are a ton of modifications required to make it so. The model needs to be hollow, for example, but still have wall thickness, which basically means taking it into a program like ZBrush and preparing it for print, which is a job (and headache, if the model wasn't originally designed for printing) all its own. ZB does have a plug-in that's specifically for print exporting. Not sure what else it does tho since I've never used it.

By the time you did all that, none of the geometry would be the same as when you started out. So the only thing you'd really have to worry about in that regard is V4's shape being copyrighted. 

I just ran across a blog recently where a girl is using V4 to create a ball jointed doll. She's chopped up the mesh - in ZB i'm guessing - and modified the parts to be printed out. Not sure how far she's gotten with it, but it's clearly V4 she's using. I think she even stated as such in her blog posts. 

If she ever finishes it and decides to market it, (I think its just a personal project tho) then I can see where she'd run into a problem with DAZ in terms of V4's face/shape being so recognizable, but everything else, I don't think DAZ would be able to do much about it. They don't own copyright on the human form, only on the shape they create. Once that shape is modified, it no longer belongs to DAZ. 

 

~Shane