6Dprime opened this issue on Sep 07, 2002 ยท 57 posts
6Dprime posted Sun, 08 September 2002 at 1:28 PM
Anthony, Let's try a different analogy regarding poses -- sculpture. Let's say someone creates a pose that mimics "The Thinker" in Poser 4. And let's assume it is nearly perfect. By subtle manipulation, the artist has overcome the mesh breaks in the forearm bend under the chin, etc. After four months of tedious, loving work, she copyrights it, sells it, and all is good. Then, she installs Poser 5. She implicitly agrees to the new EULA. She implicitly agrees that she no longer holds copyright to her pose that she worked so long to create and that is so clever and expertly executed. How can she sell it? Yet the new EULA states that she cannot copyright it. If she can't copyright it, who owns it? Who protects it from theft? With the new EULA, are all poses in the public domain? So do they all come out of the MarketPlace and go into the Free Stuff? Things may not be this simple, but I always thought you had to own something before you could sell it.