Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: A Question About the New Poser 5 EULA

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


MallenLane posted Sun, 08 September 2002 at 3:09 AM

And in regards to the section titled "Internal Program Settings"? Which states the following. "You cannot claim any copyright or ownership of any Program settings or processes. For example, you may sell light or camera settings that you created using Program, but cannot copyright these settings as they are an integral part of program" That states Lights and Cameras only as an example. It does not rule out anything that could be considered an internal process. Lets look at what is being defined as an internal process there, and compare it to another instance. -Lights are user created data stored in a Poser file format for other people to access. -Morphs are user created data stored in a Poser file format for other people to access. -Light settings in Poser formats are useless outside the Poser program. -Morphs contained in a CR2 are useless outside the poser program. -Both files are only useable by way of an internal process in the program. i.e. reading and displaying the results. I would also like to point you momentarily to the following company. http://www.doschdesign.com - who happen to sell of all things, light settings for various programs ( 3DSmax, LW, Cinema4D) with their Light-Scenes product. Selling the assuredly artistic, and copyrightable work of lighting design is not uncommon even outside Poser. So, where is the line drawn being drawn at? I actually dont see any limitations being applied to CLs possible copyright claiming options in the Poser5 EULA. What we do have is a vague, opened ended EULA that implies that everything is possibly copyright CL, and then we have people making directionless statements that they'd "never pursue such a issue". Saying something does not make it always so, and forum posts are not legally binding vs. a contract. Also, trying to give examples in comparison to other programs like Microsoft Word is invalid. It in no way affects this situation since the two programs, and their EULAs are very different. In fact the MS Word EULA expressly and clearly states that any information stored in the programs format is the copyrightable property of the contents originator. I see no such statement anywhere in the Poser5 EULA.