Well basically legal action would be stop distribution, which would be against the distributing outlet (rdna, rendo, share cg etc) and that is about as easy as a letter.

In order to make a v4 shaped morph for dawn youd need to have the v4 geometry for reference at the very least.  If you have that then you are using v4 thus agreeing to the EULA.

I assume all this clone business is to get v4 clothes to autofit in DS... why not just make a dawn shape for genesis/genesis2.  Fit your v4 stuff to genesis via whatever the existing method is, then dial in your dawn morph to get your shape.. I assume you can bake in that shape into a new OBJ somehow and then rig it for dawn instead.

In this way I cant see any copyright issues aside from whether Hivewire would allow the 'genesis to dawn' shape to be distributed, as they do own the rights to that shape.

 

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - "Better rigging" is not "Dawn's rigging".

A lot of people like the bends of Genesis, and I understand that.

To me, it looks a lot like rubber - from the renders I've seen. Won't touch DS or DSON for Poser with a 20-feet pole.

 

And there's also that: Genesis works well in DS and works like c**p in Poser, Dawn works well in both, so Genesis can't replace Dawn. (True enough, Dawn can't replace Genesis either)

Agreed. However a clone will have an impact one way or another. Also as mentioned before, its up to Daz to even allow it.

If someone went and released a "Nicky4" morph for Dawn, then Daz wouldn't be able to do much. If they threatened legal action in the US they may be able to someone to back down. Whether they would actually take that legal action is doubtful. But what if the creator lived in Europe, Asia or Australia where legislation is different and US laws don't apply (despite what US citizens think).

Infringes DAZ EULA? As I wouldn't be using a DAZ product, I've never agreed to it, it doesn't apply.