https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=2012&p=29683#p29683
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Visitor
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 01:12 AM

What happened to Galipe's Karine
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I marked her as disapproved because of copyright issues.

This morning I noticed that Galipe had uploaded a Posette character named Karine.  Galipe did not post anything about his upload, so I posted a news item about it.

That was before I left home for the day.  Since I returned, I downloaded a copy of Karine and took a look at the contents of the zip, I found that he included textures maps, a Poser weblink file, A CR2 and an OBJ.

The OBJ file is that of P4 Posette, meaning that this package is a copyright violation.  Anyone who never bought Poser 4+ but has DAZ Studio or Poser 3 does not have P4 Posette, but by downloading this archive would have have a working copy of Posette.

Also the CR2 contains a copy of Kozaburo's KyokoHairMK2 that is built on a hair mesh by Yamato, and that package has a modified texture map for that hair.  There are free characters from Japan who are packages with a transmapped hair prop by Kozaburo [i]With his knowldege and permission[/i]

In this case, there is nothing in the package to indicate that Kozaburo has granted his permission for the use of that hair this way.  Infact at the beginning of the readme file it says:

[quote]All meshes created in this pack are made by this PoserPorter User[/quote]

Also the weblink leads to a site that seems to be unrelated to the character or to this person.

It may be that this person is new and does not understand the copyright problems in this package.  Or then again...

For the moment the situatin is safe, the file can not be downloaded and the announcement that I posted has been moved to this forum and locked, so that no one except PF staff can see the announcement.  We have time to stop and consider what to do.

The question is what should we do?

I am am thinking that we should delete the character, and the announcement topic, then send Galipe an email explaining why.


