Hello all, this is my first post, though I've been harvesting a lot of good advice from this forum

for quite some time while learning to handle Poser. By now I've reached a skill level on which I

could use some serious critique. I thought maybe uploading to the gallery could bring me

some. Two issues made me drop the idea.

First of all there's the copyright thing. Now and then I use models downloaded from some

freebie site. Over time I've discovered that allegedly free models may very well be not free at

all but ripped from some commercial site and republished in obj or 3ds format, with or without

original texture. There is no way to to know beforehand what's legit. In my experience "free"

models of high quality are suspicious, but how can you tell about all those that are good

enough but don't stand out? Would "good faith" protect me from litigations?

Secondly I studied the gallery rules and compared them to those of other venues, and they all

look forbiddingly draconian. I realize that gallery rules have to be based on a cultural and legal

lowest common denominator. But quite a few of us are raised in a less morally overheated

cultural milieu, where the image of a naked body, be it an adult or a child, is not considered

inherently erotic; where likewise it's recognized that an overly violent or seemingly

pornographic scene may actually be meant to convey something else than what meets the eye.

For us, adapting to a less allowing mindset is not entirely trivial.

I don't do porn but I do nudity, with explicit eroticism when called for though rarely, and I've

done some borderline sadistic violence for exploration's sake. I understand by deduction that

some of my scenes may be off limits but I don't quite see why, and the innocent nudity and

modest gore of gallery images don't really show where the line is drawn - or do they? I hope

not. So, then, what can I upload - or rather, how can I best calibrate my sense of international

decency and protocol?

And apologies for the lengthy post.