Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: RESPONSE TO "THE TRUTH ABOUT AMY"

Pamola opened this issue on May 01, 2002 ยท 47 posts


Freakachu posted Wed, 01 May 2002 at 1:44 PM

VirtualSite: Poser owns the right to the file format, but the agreement allows this to be distributed (and sold) in order to allow new props and creatures to be used with the program. PZ2, PZ3, CR2, and PP2 are all proprietary formats, and the means to encode or decode original material in this format are property of Curious Labs--but the materials encoded and decoded by this process are the property of the artist. This means that I can sell a PP2 or CR2 file that contains my original work but I CANNOT sell a program that allows people to encode or decode these files without the permission of Curious Labs. (The best example is that programs that can modify GIF images need to pay a fee to UNISYS to use their proprietary code to encode in GIF format. However, people creating these images, or viewing them do not--at least not yet.) c1rcle: I thought I read something along those lines in the Microsoft Basic agreement about 10 years ago. I'd like to believe that I just misinterpreted the legalese. If not, the agreement is insane++