Quick legal question... teapot related

[Dan McDonald]

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.

Dan