Kendra opened this issue on Apr 18, 2002 ยท 30 posts
duanemoody posted Fri, 19 April 2002 at 1:42 PM
Ahem. A few suggestions. Every Poser site has mountains of paperwork for anyone who wants to sell through that site, but for freebies, not so much as a readme with an "I have read this and agree to abide by it" checkbox. This is stupid. If new uploaders here are newbies, it's because they have no guidance from the site or an understanding of a reasonable set of expectations. Since Renderosity does a fair amount of cookie work, it's possible to flag users who've never uploaded before and redirect them to a "welcome to uploading" page. All such a page would need is: A) a plea not to use nondescriptive filenames like table.zip, chair.zip, sword.zip, etc., and to do the same with enclosed readmes. B) a reminder not to upload copyrighted .CR2s C) a good legal definition of commercial use D) an editorial comment that people who download your works will do pretty much as they please with them unless you explicitly state otherwise in an enclosed readme. A link to a sample readme people could use as a template would be EXTREMELY helpful. E) Textures should be zipped with a readme unless the artist can manage to put their terms of usage on the texture itself (IMHO, actually a better idea). F) a checkbox that says "I have read this document and understand its policies" or something like that. If it isn't checked, you don't get to upload your first upload.