Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: you can't buy this...pushing poser to the limits.why i groan about the gallery

Poppi opened this issue on Jan 10, 2003 ยท 33 posts


pendarian posted Fri, 10 January 2003 at 11:39 PM

The trees and image are very nice. Adam does wonderful work. However, it bothers me that the pasted image of Gollum is in there. Mainly because of this copyright notice at the New Line Cinema site...and Gollum is definately property of New Line Cinema. "No Online Material may be copied, reproduced, republished, modified, uploaded, posted, transmitted, distributed in any way, or otherwise used for any purpose without the prior written permission of their respective owners. You may not add, delete, distort, or otherwise modify the contents on the NL Sites. Any unauthorized attempts to modify any Online Material, to defeat or circumvent our security features, or to utilize the NL Sites for other than their intended purposes are prohibited." We are seeing some modified images from the LOTR and the TTT in the galleries now. Seems they are starting to pop up more and more. It's copyright violation pure and simple. I like Adam and respect his talent a LOT...this isn't a slam against him, so please no nasty IM's perhaps he had no idea by simply uploading the image it was a violation of their copyright. But we all need to be aware that just because it's out there doesn't mean it's public domain and no matter how innocent, we still can't use it. I sure wouldn't want New Line on my butt or on this site's butt because of some misunderstanding about the rules of their stuff. And I don't want to hear "but so and so site does it" it still does not make it right. And the big legitimate sites do have permission it's quite the big deal. I belong to a LOTR costume list and they had to jump through hoops to get permission just to show one sleeve of a costume..it was almost taken down because New Line found out that images from the movies were being published on websites without their permission...So they are very aware of what is going on internet wise.... We just need to be very careful...and Adam made it very plain on his commentary at the top from the get go that it was a pasted in image of Gollum...unlike some otheres that have used their imagery...some of us just read it incorrectly and ran with it from there. Pendy