Copyright concerns discouraging me from purchasing, and suggestions
Author: SpaceRay. You are not the first one, there are already many threads about filters copyright in the forum, just make a search in the forum for "COPYRIGHT" and you will see lots of related posts and threads (is put 500 results) as in this link
Copyright search in the forum (https://www.filterforge.com/forum/search.php?q=copyright&FORUM_ID=0)
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"All your filter are belong to someone else!"
Author: Conniekat8. "Genie wrote:
I just did a little research on if a preset is part of the copyright of the filter. On other softwares, some presets are clearly stated copyrighted, some are not. FF only talks of the filter. Now, a filter is basically programming lingo to create an effect. A preset is a result of the filter in action. An end ...
Copyright Infringement?
... formal library is covered by the end users EULA and the authors are covered by the agreement one agrees to when one uploads a filter to the library. both of these together basically state, as far as i can tell, that the end user is not bound by any copyright issues of the filters in the library. they are free to use in any way one sees fit.
however, filters attached to posts in the forums are the sole copyright of the author(s) and are NOT bound by the EULA's! and that means that you need the ...
"All your filter are belong to someone else!"
Author: StevieJ. The legal problem here is that FF has made authors the copyright holders.....then FF "appears" to completely strip authors of all copyright protection in the terms of use. I'm not a lawyer, but I know enough to see that there is a definite legal conflict here with making authors copyright holders ...
Upcoming EULA changes, round 3
Author: CFandM. If I am correct and please someone correct me if I am wrong..I know you will ;)
There are different things that you can copyright not only bundled things..But also individual copyrights...Just like music...You can copyright a song, the lyrics or the entire album that it is on.......
So if I have a song and someone else wrote the lyrics..I have to include their name ...
Upcoming EULA changes, round two
Author: Kraellin. omega,
no, i'm not contradicting myself. there are two things in play here, copyrights and licensing. copyright protects the authors from others copying the author's filters as their own. but, there is a license, which all authors 'sign' when they upload a filter to the library. this is the 'upload Eula' (Eula = end user license ...
Upcoming EULA changes, round two
Author: Kraellin. "Conniekat8 wrote:
Well, there's people claiming copyrights to those images right now. On renderosity, and places like sign guy's texture reselling."
yes, that's sort of what sparked this whole issue. and to be honest, 'derivative works' is not something in u.s. copyright law i'm fully versed ...
Our Private Filter Library
Author: Sphinx.. "Kraellin wrote:
your filters in the library ARE copyrighted by you. you still hold the copyrights. read the author's eula!"
Yes, you hold the copyrights over the actual filter construction. It's like saying that a PS/PSP artist only hold copyrights over the arrangement and settings of layers,...
Copyright
Author: Ruzgar. Who owns the copyrights of the filters? What are the usage limits? When a filter is applied to any image, can the resulting product be sold?
Smoke, Fire & Water by Persidio
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Smoke, Fire & Water by Persidio
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Smoke, Fire & Water Submerged
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EULA thoughts
... convince me I'm totally wrong; I just think these are things that should be considered internally before going ahead. As always, I Am Not an IP Lawyer.
1) I don't believe you can't change the existing EULA in this way. This is a contract issue, not a copyright thing. You already sold people a license to do something and you cannot unilaterally take it away, even if you claim the right to change the EULA.
This means that in FF 2.0 you can have new EULA terms like this, but I'm not even sure you ...
Copyright Law (as opposed to myth)
Author: Kraellin. and since 'derivative works' are somewhat important to us right now, here's a couple quotes. this is from the following page: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#derivative and reads:
"A “derivative work†is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, ...
Light version of FF and comercial FF filters
Author: CFandM. "Persidio wrote:
but I did my part by sharing this information on the history of the Graphics Community on the web- and heavy copyright issues still exist-"
They will always exsist. There will always be some type of copyrights issues surrounding music, graphics and software of various licences.
Vary much so in the parts of the world that have no laws per-say
Kinda ...
"I just can't get no respect ..."
... serial number. i suppose you could do a crc check or something to make sure the byte count/arithmetic was right, though. but it's not as easy as just saying 'lock the filters'.
contracts between producer and buyer would/could work. you do own the copyrights to any filter you produce. selling outright would be the same. just one warning on that, though, you'd have to register your filter with the copyright office. you cant sue based on copyright unless the copyright is registered. (or at least,...
Selling a rendered Image
... landscape or whatever was already there. See? "
@ Velho
No, I don't see because what you are implying is absolutely ludicrous! It's a terrible analogy, if that is what it was meant to be...
Obviously you don't have a full understanding of copyrights or photography! Unless I am contracted by a third party the images I create are mine to sell or display, they are copyrighted to me, and I own them. I did not steal them or buy them from someone else. I am the person that spent thousands of ...
