Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: DAZ 3D and The Tailor, Please clarify your position

ronknights opened this issue on Jun 28, 2002 ยท 123 posts


Ironbear posted Sat, 29 June 2002 at 1:27 PM

Look folks. Tempest in a teakettle. This is pretty simple - the Tailor transfers morph and point/vertex INFORMATION, not the morphs. It trasfers the positions of the points within the morph, and it creates an APPROXIMATION of those positions in the conforming geometry. Unless they can physically prove that Tailor is actually moving the morph to the clothing rather than translating the morph INFORMATION - ie the vertex positions and spacial information, they haven't a single legal leg to stand on in copyright court. And they can't prove that it's transferring the physical morphs because it's been proven and documented over and over again that you can't transger morphs from one geometry to a different geometry by people like Nerd, JeffH, Rob Wiesenant, PhilC and numerous other poser and modeling techicians. ALL you can do is approximate the morphs in a different figure by following the curves of the shape and creating a new morph in the different mesh. So.... Daz can make whatever policy they choose. And if you legally own the Tailor, then use it for the purposes for which it was lisenced and sold to you, and as long as you stay within established legal distribution policies and contracts, do as you will with your creations. And if someone wants to bring some ill considered suit against you - let em. You can search these forums and find all sorts of interesting documentation, a lot of it posted by Daz regarding legal distribution, to feed your lawyer. ;] That's a legal can of worms I doubt anyone is going to want opened in a copyright court.

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