Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Distributing morph targets versus copyright issues

pazu opened this issue on Dec 17, 2003 ยท 7 posts


pazu posted Wed, 17 December 2003 at 9:23 PM

I created some morph targets for a commercial wireframe, and saved them along with a new .CR2 file. Obviously, distributing this .CR2 file would be a copyright violation. Is there any way I can distribute my morph targets without violating copyright? My thinking is:

  1. I could extract my morph targets from the commercial .CR2, then write a program that patches my targets into the user's commercial .CR2. Is this OK? Does the modified text that defines my new morph target belong to me, or to the original author?

  2. As the manual suggests, I can export the morphed body part in .obj format, and reload with "Object:Load Morph Target." But do I have distribution rights for that modified .obj part?

  3. As an ignorant newbie, am I missing some easy and legal way to distribute morph targets?

  4. What makes a wireframe geometry "belong" to somebody anyway? Is it the exact polygon placement, the mathematical coordinates of the vertices, or what? What has to be different to make one wireframe (or texture, or whatever) not infringe on another?

What a can o' worms! I should probably take a clue from the fact that I haven't noticed many third party morph targets in distributionseems a pity!

Thanks for your opinions!