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I for one think it's a wonderful idea! Cookie :o)

Thank you for your kind words Wizzard :o) Cookie

As far as readme's being a burden, I have a read-me directory in my poser folder. It's not that hard to rename the readme to something that will let you know what its for and toss it in there is it? I mean people spend sometimes month's working on new poser characters, is it too hard for the end user to spend a few seconds moving and renaming the readme? If so that's pretty screwed up! Cookie

"I think that anyone who's that worried about the possibility that someone might make a buck from a picture with their model in it shouldn't bother with freebies." "I think you should certainly give credit when possible, and even notify the creator if you can. I mean, if someone used a model I created, I'd be interested in seeing what they did, commercial or not. But as I pointed out in my example above, sometimes it may not be feasible" I don't think anyone has a problem with somone making a buck from a picture with their model. And alot of people here use freebies that can't be used commercially because art is a hobbie for them, and those types of people couldn't care less what commercial restrictions something has. I think some people here just have a problem with not wanting to giving credit where it's due. The reason I say that is this. I'm not sure (since I don't do commercial stuff) if daz has commercial use restrictions on their freebies, I doubt they do. BUT I'm sure if they did, since they are a buisness with enough money to possibly sue a person that you would find it quite important to keep your readme that came with stuff like "plastic plane #109" (or whatever) so that you would know to NOT use the plastic plane in next month's "big project". I see alot of people here acting like it's too hard for them to keep the readme files for the models that they download for free. I think it's rediculous personaly. JMO. Cookie

AFAIK an author has the right to set any restictions on work derived from theirs that they want, and also the right to state that their work may not be edited (for example: someone taking a photo into adobe and painting over it) like I said that's only AFAIK. Cookie

Well I for one absolutley hate it when people name their readme's "readme" cause they tend to get overwritten that way. You will never find any readme from me with that name. grin As far as telling people to "make their own" that does seem a little harsh to me, as everyone isn't capable. I'm decent (I think) at making models, but ask me to make a texture and you'll get a 2000x2000 white image I'm really that bad at it. (heh) I simply ask people to make textures for me and usually a few people in this wonderful community reply to my request :) It may be a good idea if you need something for a commercial project to just ask people if they can make it for you for commercial use as soon as you figure out that you need it, cause almost everyone here is REALLY generous. Just a thought, Cookie

here is part of the readme to a model of mine: "Chelsea Rae is free to use in ANY NON-COMMERCIAL picture. Chelsea Rae cannot be used in ANY COMMERCIAL artwork without prior written consent from ME (cookie@faerieguild.com). Chelsea Rae is a FREE model and is intended to stay that way, do not sell or re-distribute in part or in whole this model or it's props." my reason behind this is simple, even though I'm likely to let people use my stuff for free comercially, I'm an aspiring artist, and the model is my creation, that I feel I deserve credit for. The only way I have of attempting to make sure everyone plays fair is to do this. This is just my way of doing things, does it really seem that unreasonable? Cookie