Poppi opened this issue on Sep 10, 2002 ยท 52 posts
KattMan posted Tue, 10 September 2002 at 7:17 AM
This does have ramifications for me, but I do believe I fall into fair use. The P-Wizard, as with many utilities out there, work with editing or even creating new CR2's. With this in mind these applications are writing a format that is restricted. Now here is where fair use comes in. These applications are not using that format for thier own purposes but rather for the inhancement of poser itself. This walks a thin grey line in the use of copyrighted formats but still maintinas the spirit of the EULA. It is not like MS Word using the format of another word processing program to take over the usage of that format for direct competition. These applications do not directly compete with Poser. Now if we created another figure rendering application and used the CR2 format we would be in direct competition and could not do so without paying some for of fee. It is interesting though when you really get into the guts of the CR2 format. I look at it as two parts. There is the basic OBJ format embedded within the CR2 format. With this in mind I would think that CL is only copyrighting the addition to the OBJ format rather then the entire CR2 format itself.