On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 9:20:44 AM UTC-6, FaceGen Guru wrote: > > > Hello, and thanks for asking. > > Like Daz or Reallusion, FaceGen meshes and color maps are copyrighted and > cannot be freely distributed. > > This is to prevent obvious abuse, which happens frequently. > > We recognize that are legitimate use cases: > > 1. Images rendered using FaceGen meshes & color maps are yours to do as > you wish, per our license. > > 2. If you're only using FaceGen as a guideline, and you rebuild your own > mesh topology and paint your own color map, you can distribute freely as > this is not a copyright violation. > > 3. If you only need to distribute a FaceGen mesh (modified or otherwise) > to a customer who will be rendering images, then as long as their > organisation owns a copy of FaceGen Modeller, no problem. > > 4. If you need to distribute a FaceGen mesh to many people, for example as > part of a software product, then you need to purchase our re-distribution > license (via Modeller Enterprise). > > Copyright issues to do with source photos are between you and the source > photo copyright holder. If you remove the detail texture there should be no > copyright claim since the image was not directly copied, merely compared. > > Best wishes, >
Dear FaceGen Guru Thanks for the timely response, that clarifies this for me. I will be doing #2 in my workflow, so that is what I hoped. Great product!! M Glant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FaceGen" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
