Standard License and Creative Commons?

foxstar

I was just wondering if anybody knew off by hand if renders produced by DAZ content with the standard license are eligible to be published under Creative Commons?  There is a site I would like to contribute to, but I need to ensure I can publish my art under it. Based on what I've read elsewhere, I suspect that it is permitted, but I just wish to confirm.

Many thanks!

Richard Haseltine

You an share your renders under any license you like, as long as there are no restrictiopns in the content license (e.g. Editorial License would also apply to renders).

foxstar

Awesome! Thank you so much Richard!

foxstar

Hey Richard. 

I asked on the forum of the site I wish to contribute to, and there was concern from one of their licensing staff about the part of DAZ's EULA/Standard License that says:

"...provided that User may not in any case publish, market, distribute, transfer, sell or sublicense any renderings, animations, software applications, data or any other product from which any Content, or any part thereof, or any substantially similar version of the Content can be separately exported, extracted or de-compiled into any re-distributable form or format."

might render my DAZ images as "Non-Derivative" work.  For clarification, that provision isn't intended to prevent sharing them under Creative Commons so long as the original content can't be extracted, correct? 

Thanks again for your help! 

Richard Haseltine

As long sa you aren't aplying maps to flat surfaces it would not be practical to extract them, and you certainly couldn't extract the mesh itself. There are ways of use images that might breach this, but it would require obvious intent and would not be an issue with a "real" rendered image.

foxstar

I think so, too; at least I know DAZ doesn't have an issue with it.  The site I want to post on has some pretty strict standards, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.  Can't blame them for wanting to cover their butts!

Thanks again, Richard.