Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Vogue or Rogue...Where's the Line Between Striking & Stealing a Pose?

yungturk39 opened this issue on Nov 07, 2005 ยท 56 posts


yungturk39 posted Mon, 07 November 2005 at 11:28 AM

This is something I've been curious about for a while. If pose packs are intending to used as helpful starting points for developing your own poses, to just what degree must the end-user alter the original pose in order to claim the result as being his or her own work? For example, let's say I buy a pose set of various poses of Vicky sitting in a chair. Suppose I like everything about the pose except for the tilt of her neck, and the bend of one of her ankles. If I change these to my liking, am I now the owner of this new pose, able to distribute it as I see fit? I don't want to upset any of the merchants here who sell poses by asking this. I'm just really wondering if there's some kind of official, or unofficial but generally agreed-upon answer to this question. In the example I gave above, I'd be inclined to think that if I only made those small changes, and started distributing the pose, that I would be doing something wrong. I'm guessing most people here would feel that way. But that said, at what point DOES it become ok? It's wierd. I mean, if you really can claim a pose as your own, and anyone who distributes it --or subtle variations of it-- is stealing...I just find that to be an interesting idea. It's like every new figure becomes the Poser equivalent of the wild frontier. The first people to use it, and make and market poses for this figure I guess you could think of as pioneers, staking their claims as they make the figure sit, stand, lay down, whatever. And I, as the late comer, must tread carefully when I set my figures' parameter values, lest I tread too closely to someone's parameter-dial private property. Am I overthinking this issue?