"Blue Herring" <bhe### [at] tinfoilcatcom> wrote in message 
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> "Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Very nice. I think those models are extremely well done.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Chris B.
>>
>> p.s. Any of them would make a very nice addition to the object collection 
>> we
>> started last year at http://lib.povray.org, if you're interested.
>
> Thanks very much!  I'd be happy to submit these, though I'm wondering if 
> there
> are any copyright issues as they are modeled on real products (the blocks 
> also
> use the actual patterns as well.)
>

Ah yes. This has been discussed before, (about a desk if I remember 
correctly) and the conclusion there seemed to be that if it bore 
characteristics unique to a particular manufacturers version of the item (or 
a trademark) that there could well be issues in copying the item.

I recall wondering whether this really applied to a 3D representation of the 
object any more than to a 2D representation of the object, such as a photo, 
a rendering or technical drawings, but I am not a lawyer and have to admit 
to still being totally unclear about whether there's anything wrong with 
distributing 3D models of real world objects.

Best Regards,
Chris B.

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