chadly opened this issue on Jun 29, 2002 ยท 215 posts
FishNose posted Sun, 30 June 2002 at 5:19 AM
Two things: 1. thip: you and several others are obviously wrong. Of course you can make and sell clothes for DAZ meshes! What nonsense to suggest anything else. 2. Everybody: DAZ is a company with owners and employees just like any other. They need to protect their investments and products, and I think they do so in a reasonable way. In fact, they are not particularly restrictive, allowing all sorts of derivative products and freebies to go unchecked into the communities' melting pots. That they won't allow us to sell or give away stuff that can damage their products' market, is fine. In fact, I would consider them fools otherwise. (This Mike catsuit thing - don't know whether this is an issue or not. I'm speaking more generally here, just as Chad is.) If you want to see restrictive, unpleasant practices, go out there and take a look at what the music companies, film studios, Coca Cola, MacDonalds, Microsoft, and other gargantuans do. That's a whole other ball game, kids. So stop being so darn neurotic. And if you want to sell stuff that is add-on to DAZ products, fine - but READ and UNDERSTAND the agreements and conditions, don't just take a chance. If you have trouble interpreting it all, then fine, ask a lawyer or some other person in the know to explain it to you. If you don't fully understand the conditions, you are at risk, regardless of the market you're in, the type of products you're selling. If you sell soft drinks in bottles shaped like a Coke bottle, you WILL get trouble. Even in Timbuktu. I'm a multimedia producer, I use software, video, music and images and other stuff in my productions, stuff made by other people. I can NEVER just claim that the conditions were difficult to understand if I make a mistake. It's my problem to understand, my responsibility. I think DAZ is fairly generous, they have chosen to be so from a marketing standpoint since it increases the sales potential of their products, which is a correct analysis in my view. However, this 3D world changes all the time, gets messy, and now they clarified their standpoint. Fine. The conditions for distribution of Vicki and Mike cr2's and the like has always been perfectly clear. Just read them. So all this lynch mob stuff, just drop it, kids. There's way too much paranoia here. Let's be glad that DAZ hasn't done the TOTAL BAN thing from the beginning, that would have been easier for them. They've chosen to be fairly open. And that's one of the prime reasons this is such a thriving community and all you vendors have something to sell. And someone to sell it to. Remember folks, this isn't a flea market on a back street in Djakarta - it's a fully-fledged international commercial marketplace with ALL that it entails. :] FishNose