Philywebrider opened this issue on Aug 29, 2002 ยท 61 posts
Jack D. Kammerer posted Mon, 02 September 2002 at 12:08 PM
Cyberstretch wrote: "I have read the low-res version of the manual, which I only knew about by reading through the threads here, and I would suggest that the EULA appears to have been written very vaguely and can easily be misinterpreted depending upon the individuals' previous experience, etc." Well said!! At the insistance of a friend and potential vendor to AniMotions asked me to look at the new EULA and asked if this would affect the Freestuff and online store area's of the Community sites and if the vendors and online stores were required to pay royalities to Curious Labs. (see pg. 13 entitled Content Distribution). Admittedly, I didn't think that this is the case. But after reading their subsections C, D and E, I am not so sure. Granted I am no lawyer (but will be having one looking this over come Tuesday) but according to this, nothing in .CR2 format(and all of the other Poser 5 formats) can be copyrighted. Which leaves all of the vendors and freestuff contributors UNPROTECTED FROM THE SAME WAREZ KIDDIES that resulted in Curious Labs adding this Challenge Code for. I could be wrong, but the way it reads to me is those people who run Online Stores or make product to support Poser 5 and themselves, they will no longer have the means to combat warez and must bite the bullet if their own products are in Poser 5 formats are copied, resold, warezed, used commercially without permission or given away and are subject to paying royalties to Curious Labs for the use of such formats. Like I said, I am not a lawyer and I admitt being really friggen confused when reading this new EULA and have sent an e-mail to Kupa asking about it. But if I am reading this right, I wont be supporting Poser 5. Jack PS - Aleks, NICE ONE!! Your anology of having the Software company calling you to get bank information was so funny I sprayed Mt Dew all over my keyboard!! :o)