Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Copycat?

MaxxArcher opened this issue on Nov 25, 2001 ยท 41 posts


MaxxArcher posted Mon, 26 November 2001 at 8:59 AM

The second I saw kagato98s post I knew I was dealing with a texture of either Noa, Asia or one of the YYY girls by StefyZZ. After a brief check of my texture folders I knew it was Asia, no doubt whatsoever. However, to be sure, I rendered a scene by myself to compare the files. After seeing the match, I sent instant messages to both ScottA and StefyZZ addressing a possible copyright violation at Renderosity requesting them to take proper action. And yes kagato98, as a matter of courtesy I should have sent you too an instant message inquiring about the texture and warn you about you violating a copyright. My sincerest appologies for neglecting to do so, I learned a lesson wit this too. However, with regard to any damage that my have been done to your reputation, I cant and wont take any responsibility as it was you who posted the texture in the first place and talked about your plans with it, without verifying yourself whether a copyright issue could arise or not, especially with your commercial intent. So, any damage done is self inflicted. Apparently the word of a friend dumping a load of pictures on your disk isnt sufficient in this case. I do believe you acted in good faith and as Im not the grudging kind, I wont hold anything whatsoever against you and I hope the same goes for you. People at Renderosity work hard, mostly just for fun, I just couldnt stand another case of copyright violation. Look at traveler for example, the morph guru, he even shut down his MorphWorld 2.0 site, because people were selling his free but copyrighted morphs, with a stripped down MorphWorld 3.0 as a result. Finally, I do agree with jamball77 stating that this is a hard way to learn, but I think too as creative individuals we should stand out for eachother and make sure that creativity, fun and friendships come first... Happy rendering Maxx :-)