On 20 July 2010 14:52, Dan McDonald dan@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 am assuming yes... but wanted to double check first.
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 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.
I still like the wine glass idea better ;-)
- d.