3D-Mobster posted at 5:50PM Wed, 29 August 2018 - #4335434

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Any new figure that automatically uses V4 clothing violate DAZ's IP. and Daz will never sell that IP to Anyone as Eclarke Pointed out.

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Are you sure that is correct, possible or even legal? Because the cloth that is made is not owned by Daz but by the creator. In theory I could create a dress for Character X that I made, which happens to also fit on V4, it sounds weird if they would or even could sue me for having made Character X, without clearly being able to proof that my mesh were made on V4 or copied from her and even then Im not sure they could do it. Daz own the right for V4, but you can't claim a mesh only the design? Because what would prevent me for doing the same on a specific size box and say that no one else can use my box "character" called Boxer and if any cloth fits him it would violate my IP, it sounds a bit dodgy to me, if that is true. :D

Also you have to remember that V4 comes with a lot of morphs, so if the cloth fits any of these is it then the same?

The artist owns the mesh that makes the clothing, but in order for that clothing to function on V4, it requires V4's rigging (and shape), and DAZ owns V4's rigging (and shape). They allow that rigging to be used to make content for V4. They do not allow that rigging to be used to make a competing figure or content for any competing figure(s). If the artist wants to refit their own V4 clothing (meaning what they've modeled themselves) to another figure and use that other figure's rigging then that's out of DAZ's control, but they can legally (and have) stopped the production/sale of any figure that uses V4's rigging, because her rigging is their IP.