6Dprime opened this issue on Sep 07, 2002 ยท 57 posts
phoenixamon posted Sun, 08 September 2002 at 6:27 AM
I don't think it matters what the EULA says on the issue of copyrighting things such as dial setting for lights, poses, cameras, etc... what matters is that the (US) Copyright Office would not give you a copyright on them. They are too "generic" and it would be too easy for another person to accidentally hit on the same settings. There are a lot of things they will not grant copyright on. For instance a font creator can only copyright the actual code of her font, not the appearance of it. So knock-off fonts, as long as they are not straight copies renamed, are legal. Why? Because the Copyright PTBs decided no one can copyright the alphabet. :) They decided all letter "A"s have certain characteristics, so it would be easy for one person's A to look just like another's. Or one person's light set, or sitting pose, or whatever. There are infinite possibilities for the bend of a leg, but only a narrow range of them could result in a realistic sitting pose. Maybe it stinks, maybe it doesn't, but regardless of what CL says, it's law. Phoenix