Albertosaurus opened this issue on Dec 11, 1999 ยท 7 posts
Albertosaurus posted Sat, 11 December 1999 at 8:22 PM
Is emulating someone else's work a copyright violation? ex. I make something looks very much like a zygote figure, except I make it completely on my own.
Legume posted Sat, 11 December 1999 at 8:49 PM
No. But why would you go to the trouble of making something that looks just like something you've already got?
Albertosaurus posted Sat, 11 December 1999 at 10:01 PM
The point is, I don't want to pay for the object in question. So if I make my own equivalent, will people get on my case?
Gawain posted Sun, 12 December 1999 at 1:52 AM
If you make something look too much like a copyrighted object or graphic you MIGHT get in trouble. It all depends on how close the two things look alike and how aggresive the copyright holder is. If its done for personal use you may be alright.
Legume posted Sun, 12 December 1999 at 12:01 PM
Zygote has a copyright on the MESH itself. If you're creating an original mesh, you should have no problems. After all, what are the odds of you creating a mesh with the same polygon count? If they WERE to come complaining, it'd be easy enough to prove it's an original!
wyrwulf posted Sun, 12 December 1999 at 12:26 PM
If you are really worried about it, save a few work in progress files as you make your figure to help prove that you did the work.
Ikyoto posted Sun, 12 December 1999 at 10:52 PM
wyrwulf is right. Make a backup with dates and your fine.