On 11/6/2018 at 10:12 PM, cloakfiend said:I would ideally like someone else to deal with all that. Im making a cat for someone at the moment. Im not really bothered if someone scans and copies it as it will never be as good as the original in terms of quality. But it might irritate me if they do a really poor job of it!?
I have very little technical stuff but i did come up with some very handy modular equipment for my plating which makes setting things up so much easier, but seeing as no one has seen them yet ill worry about that later if i release them.
Yes, I do fully understand. I dislike all this legalese too, and I feel the same.
The problem is that shareholders, thieves and lawyers often have a totally opposite viewpoint compared to us, technicians, designers, developers and artists. Often they do not understand the concept of creating and sharing artistic and technical beauty. It is the creation, sharing and admiring of this beauty that makes us happy.
So I tend to learn the legalese well enough to keep me out of trouble.
Applying a license to your work also helps to prevent others from stealing it, and then going to court and claiming that you stole it from them. And thereby excluding you from using your own work, or even forcing you to pay fines and "damage-repairs" to them. This will be very unlikely in your art, but in big-business it is common practice. Especially small technical developers should be aware of this risk (and apply for patents, registration, licenses or other defense mechanisms where appropriate).
Don't let all this discourage you, and don't let it bring your enthousiasm down. On the contrary: keep creating so much beauty that these ugly people can't keep up bringing it down. Sort of "out-creating" them, like outrunning. :-)
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I would ideally like someone else to deal with all that. Im making a cat for someone at the moment. Im not really bothered if someone scans and copies it as it will never be as good as the original in terms of quality. But it might irritate me if they do a really poor job of it!?
I have very little technical stuff but i did come up with some very handy modular equipment for my plating which makes setting things up so much easier, but seeing as no one has seen them yet ill worry about that later if i release them.
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