Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Copycat?

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


soulhuntre posted Thu, 29 November 2001 at 9:12 AM

"Seeing the Kagato's renders I can perfectly recognize that that is a mixed verison between my Asia and my Yuma."

I don't think anyone is debating that :)

"I think that Kagato is not telling the truth when he've said he didn't know that I was the creator of the 2 textures he used and mixed to created his "own" one, 'cause on both the head and body Yuma textures are written with very big letters the copyrights; maybe the friends have deleted them from the map? I'm sorry but this is not believable to me."

Actually, it is believable to me. Those people who send out pirated information routinely repackage and alter the data before sending for a variety of reasons - and this would be a trivially obvious alteration.

In fact, Kagato seems to be clearly aware of the issues of copyright law and so on ... in a post above the quote is:

"so I went to work with a new idea. I found some basic textures that were free to use for whatever purpose I desired. I made sure that these textures were free for use."

In other words, we are dealing here with someone who understands the issues and went to all the trouble to check on the issues involved. That they took someone else's word that the pirated textures were free as well is an indication of naivet.. not malicious theft.

Now, I can see where to you - as the artist who's work it was - this will seem like a malicious act... especially given your rather passionate stance on the topic to begin with.

But that doesn't mean it was a malicious act.

To me, the telling issues are:

So to me - it seems like a simple mistake. It was pointed out, apologized for and fixed. It hinkt he torches and lynching rope can go back away.