ghosty12 opened this issue on Oct 28, 2015 ยท 502 posts
RHaseltine posted Tue, 23 February 2016 at 2:27 PM
Madbat posted at 2:24PM Tue, 23 February 2016 - #4256906
the Daz EULA states:
**a _personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable_ license to use the Content, duly obtained by payment of all applicable license fees, as provided in this Agreement.
Daz and its library licensors retain all rights in, title to, and ownership of the Daz Content. The applicable third-party published artists and their library licensors retain all rights in, title to, and ownership of the PA Content. Daz gives no rights or warranties with regard to the use of any objects, names, trademarks, service marks, or works of authorship depicted in any Content and User is solely responsible for separately obtaining all such necessary rights or consents that may be required for any particular use of objects, names, trademarks, service marks or works of authorship.**
The license is per user, and the user alone, not the computer, or the household. Also, you do not own the content you buy, you pay for a limited license to use the content to create 2 D images.
And as far as copyright goes, legally if you made it, its already copyright protected. If there is no license agreement stating you can use a resource, you legally cannot. Taking pictures of buildings is not covered under copyright (you cannot copyright protect a building), but it may be covered under privacy. Likewise, using peoples faces. You legally cannot make a Carrie Fisher, or Angelina Jolie morph unless you have the actresses permission to do so. Likewise, you may not sell a likeness of any game or movie prop, set or costume unless you obtain a license from the owner. If a lawyer from Disney ever tripped through the market place here, he would likely have a field day.
Actually modern buildings, and other physical items, may well be protected by copyright. Incidental use - having them in the background of an image where the important part is the foreground and any other building would have been just as effective - may well be OK, and of course copyright expires in due course.
Using a 3D model to build another 3D Model would not be incidental use, however, and the myth that changing some percentage of an item washes out the copyright is just that - a myth.