Ciaran, why do
you think playing ping-pong is silly? :P
We have a nice
ping-pong Tournament at Lagoa's office every year, check it out:
I too think the new Lagoa tech is really promising, but
this is just about the silliest thing I've heard all day. Still, it's
early....
Having tested it for quite a while, I can tell you
for sure it is an amazing technology that's only going to continue to
get better. The days of sending your work to the render farm & then
playing ping-pong for a while are pretty much over.
-Paul
I'll make sure
to forward this. Thanks!
Hi guys,
good points. As Raff and Alan pointed out, these things are quite
standard to operate the kind of service we do.
Xavier, you didn't paste the full clause, it reads:
As
between You and Lagoa, Lagoa does not claim any rights to any
Renderings or the intellectual property that You submit to Lagoa for the
purpose of creating such Renderings,
For clarity: Lagoa makes no claim over the
ownership of the content nor the Renderings; we agree that you are the
owner of the content that you create.
In this section, we
receive a license to use the data you submit to make, among other
things, the Renderings that we are promising to make in the agreement.
Without this license, we might not have the right to create the
Renderings using the data that you submit and the functions conducted by
our servers. If you wanted us to display your Renderings (so that
others could view your work), we could not do so without this license.
To protect peoples interests, we also added that there are
limits to what we can do with the Renderings you create. First, we
cannot use the Renderings beyond the privacy settings that you have
agreed to. If the content is made private for example we will not
display it to anyone other than who you decide to give access to.
Second – if you are not a paying customer – we can sublicense more
broadly, but only for certain purposes (to promote Lagoa, Lagoa’s
models, Lagoa’s services, or you) and only for a limited period of time.
So it's quite clear what we do.
In other words, we need this clause to operate
our service. We give some free storage and some free rendering, and
the only way that we plan to use the content (created by our community)
is to help the community itself to grow. There are no hidden intentions
here and we respect people's privacy.
In fact we have some real costumers doing real work
in the system – it's been awhile. So it's not like this is a new
attempt. It's something proven to work and for some really large
companies.
I hope that clarifies everything.
