Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: A Question About the New Poser 5 EULA

6Dprime opened this issue on Sep 07, 2002 ยท 57 posts


6Dprime posted Sun, 08 September 2002 at 12:13 AM

wdupre, I think I understand where you are coming from, but let's split distribution from ownership, and license from copyright. It seems as though the EULA says you can own your meshes, and copyright them, because they are OBJ data, and the OBJ format is not proprietary to CL. But anything else, you cannot copyright because CL owns the format. You can own your OBJ, but you can't own your CR2. I can copyright an OBJ or a JPG, but can I copyright a CR2 or a PZ3? I think it says you can't. You can't own it. As far as I can tell. So, how would I protect myself if someone ripped off my CR2? Is CL going to represent my interests in court? If I am not the holder of the copyright, what rights do I have? I don't think it would be in my best interest to agree to a document that takes my rights away from me. I have those rights with Poser 4. I can copyright a Poser 4 CR2. Why does Poser 5 require that I sign those rights away? Is there some benefit I don't understand?