MikeKnott opened this issue on Apr 24, 2002 ยท 65 posts
ChuckEvans posted Thu, 25 April 2002 at 1:33 PM
Well, it's all very interesting. Mind you, I feel Blackhearted is justifiable in his discussions. That is, IMHO, because of the possible combinations, positions, etc., of the lights he has configured. (I got one free with my Selyne Combo, so I have seen those 24 lights!) It's hard to imagine ANYONE being able to "reverse-engineer" that lighting configuration (tho AMD seems too have managed its case with Intel over its reverse-engineered x86 knockoff) by simply looking at a render that was made using it. NOT within the slight variations attested to above. What DOES worry me, though, and I guess this might be the point where lawyers would step in, is another point mentioned above and that is: what if the lighting set had 10 lights in it? Or 5? There comes a point at which a lighting set could have been easily "originally created" without knowing another even existed if, say, only 4 lights were used. Which ties in to a more recent comment, that a list of URLs is copywritable. That, again, seems to depend on numbers. IF, and I say IF, there was a site that listed 1,000 makers of widgets, and another site listed 999, I might begin to wonder, indeed, be somewhat sure, that someone had stolen somebody else's ward work. On the other hand, If I saw a list of URLs for the top ten car-makers in the world on one site, I doubt that any other site would get in trouble for having the same list (even in the same order). Otherwise, that one site would be the only site in the entire world authorized to present that list and that's bordering on the absurd.