dlk30341: Sorry for causing annoyance but this problem as been ongoing, in private, for about 9 months. I was asking whether other people had faced similar bans and the inclusion of basic facts was to give the reason why I was banned by DAZ (hey, a new image title 'Banned By DAZ').

PJF: Yes, I am a paid up member of the Platinum Club. I recieve their newsletter each week explaning how I can place images in the Platinum Gallery too and how I should participate in their forums! Who is Dan Farr please?

Sephyn74: I am not presently seeking any reimbursment of the monies I have paid to DAZ.
I see your views on copyright laws have been responded to lower down! The Sara model download was mentioned by me. I have nothing to hide and it saved one of the DAZ unproffesional people from raising it. I got tired of asking for an official, alternative link.

Cooler: Taking peoples work in order to redistribute has always been the bane of the computer industry - even in the days of tape drives! I'm not posting a self promotional link to my Tomorrows Woman image but following its release I recieved enquiries about distributing the actual model. All the copyright posts in this thread mainly refer to modified polygons and textures. The grey area is when all the original polygons are destroyed to produce a true wireframe structure. The original model served only as a material/tool in order to produce something unique. That I feel is where the grey area comes into play. I took the easy way and made my own head structure in a modeling program, converted it to true wireframe and gave that to the enquirees. Had I chose to distribute the converted DAZ model then it would have been very interesting to see DAZ proving copyright had been breached. Oh dear, is my permanent ban going to be extended?! There lies the problem with permanent bans - there are no further sanctions DAZ can raelly take any more for pursuing my grievance with them.

nomuse:a useful reminder what the original post concerned. (ps: the copyright discussions are a more lot entertaining than me going on about tired 'yesterday' artists at DAZ baning me from some of their services)

Thank you to everyone that has made a post - in some cases more than one! My 'protest' will continue for as long as it takes, but not here again. Best Wishes to all.

Message edited on: 08/19/2004 06:41