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Poser - OFFICIAL F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2024 Nov 29 7:57 am)
http://www.loresinger.com/poser I am updating it as much as possible today - but the real world keeps reachin' up and bitin' me on the butt! And I still have the fighting poses I promised everyone and the Thundercats textures in the works. But the new Presidential Campain poster will be up TONIGHT! (hehehehehe)
I hope I'm not going to spoil the party, but in my point of view any re-posting of other people's stuff is a very nasty thing to do. There is a difference in "using" (eg use a texture/prop in Poser) and any sort of "distribution" (eg post it on one's site). A read-me telling that the stuff is free for usage, doesn't include the full rights to do with it whatever you want. Therefore I can only suggest that you try to get the permission before you do it - if the read-me already includes an explicit passage about it: fine. If not - PLEASE ask. It prevents you (and the creators) from a lot of potential trouble. MartinC
Of course I wasn't accusing you... I was just referring to your quoted "Go ahead and give it out for non-commercial use/don't sell/no altering/just give me credit/etc/etc" line. In my opinion this doesn't automatically include re-distribution (unless the /etc/etc parts clears it :-) I think whenever some stuff is not clearly marked as "in the public domain" or has a freeware clause which explicitly allows a certain thing, it'll be good not to assume anything but better ask for permission first.
I tend to err on the side of caution. I live with a writer and see stuff on copyright all the time. And being web-artist I like to repect other peoples work - also point out to them that they may wwant to think about including something like a "use/don't use" note in the future to avoid problems. Asking first never hurt and keep the future peace.
Ikyoto, as I said before, I totally understand this and fully support the way how you handle it. I just wanted to take the opportunity and point out the problem - the past has shown many times that a lot of users (even with good intention) are not aware of this legal difference, and quickly ran into a lot of trouble. Cheers, MartinC
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I have been getting an average of 2000 hits a day at my site and (FINALLY) someone asked questions about the textures and props I use. There are so many that making a list with links would be no more or less time consuming than just putting them up on my site. I would like to know who doesn't want their stuff re-distributed. If I listed all the stuff I have we would be here for a week. I will asume that the one that have a text file saying "Go ahead and give it out for non-commercial use/don't sell/no altering/just give me credit/etc/etc" are ok to put up. The format is a simple thumb of the prop with the name of the creator (when known) and the file link. Anyone who doens't want this done should let me know. I already know not to hand out stuff from sites like Zygote and the other fronts for commercial concerns. If I don't know who made it I will put it up and hope someone knows.