On 20 July 2010 20:20, Avery Pennarun <apenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:35 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 20 July 2010 14:52, Dan McDonald <d...@wellkeeper.com> wrote: >>> On 07/20/2010 06:44 AM, Misha Koshelev wrote:
>>>> If I take a publicly available teaset: >>>> http://www.sjbaker.org/teapot/teaset.tgz >>>> And run it through a Microsoft function: >>>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb205470%28v=VS.85%29.aspx >>>> D3DXTesselateRectPatch for example >>>> And then copy the vertex buffer and index buffer and save them... >>>> Do I have the rights to use the vertex and index buffers? >>> I would think that the output of the function does not pass the >>> threshold of originality requirement in U.S. copyright law. We will see >>> what the higher powers decide. >> It absolutely In does not create a new copyright in US law. (Bridgeman v. >> Corel.) No machine transformation of a public domain object can create >> a new copyright, no matter who built the machine. > So if the original file was under an acceptable license, then the > output file still will be, right? Technically, per US copyright: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp. That said, Alexandre might want to be more paranoid. And I still like the wine glass idea;-) - d.