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Chris B nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2008/01/04 10:51:
> "Blue Herring" <bhe### [at] tinfoilcat com> wrote in message
> news:web.477e49577e3e9c5cce5ce3790@news.povray.org...
>> "Chris B" <nom### [at] nomail com> 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.
>
>
You could send an e-mail to the maker(s) and ask them if they agree about what
you want to do.
--
Alain
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You know you've been raytracing too long when you start wishing you were
actually in that futuristic mandelbrotian landscape you just rendered.
-- fish-head
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