On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:24:24 +0200 Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > "The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has affirmed (PDF) > a ruling that a plain, unadorned wireframe model of a Toyota vehicle > is not a creative expression protected under copyright law. [...] > companies that produce goods may not be able to stop modelers from > imaging those products, but modelers may not be able to prevent > others from copying their work." > > http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/21/203240&from=rss > > Of course, an US ruling doesn't impress the rest of the world much, > but given that a lot of the "frivolous" lawsuits and threats are > coming from the US and our servers are hosted there, it's something > we should be aware of.
I was just coming on here to post about this.
Putting aside the fact that, as you point out, US <> entire world,
it's a double-edged sword for us. On one hand, it could conceivably
make some models available to us that were not available otherwise
(models only -- not texturing). But OTOH, it also would make ours
available to others without the constraints of the GPL. You can
imagine that right now, as we speak, wireframe models are being
removed from sites all over the net.
-c
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