Which ressources are we definitly allowed to use?

[Marston]

So, there are many, many, MANY ressources out there. I know rips are a taboo, but there are various artstyles that are used widely. Some examples:

- REFMAP

- Theodore

- Roco

I am pretty sure we are allowed to use REFMAP, I am not sure about Theodore and Roco. The only info on the latter I found was a wikia entry where it said she left the community because of a lack of credit entries for her work and that's about it. Does anyone know more? Because I really dig the style of her facesets.

On that note, what about RTP edits? I am not sure how many 2k3 RTP edits exists, but I know various edits from 2k. Are we allowed to use them? There are also so many standalone graphics, for example I found various 2k3 monsters turned into charsets, but I have no idea who made these. And I think this is a problem with many of the older graphics (except for rips).

 

[Andar]

RTP and RTP-Edits may be used as long as you legally own both the maker where the RTP comes from and the maker where you make your project.

Which means that since yesterday, you could purchase 2K3 on steam to gain the licence to use the 2K3-RTP in any other maker you own.

But since there is no legal way to get the RM2K (unless you can somehow have someone send the japanese box version to you), you cannot use any 2K-edits.

Edit:

And in the case of edits and non-RTP original pictures, you need to follow the TOS of the artist in addition to the Maker-EULA.

 

[Necromus]

This is probably a really complicated question.

Ripped material is a no brainer obviously.

But seeing how there never was an official version so far, any ressources people made should be ok, or atleast a grey area of sorts.

Seeing how claiming copright on something made specificly for something illegal...seems like a not so clever idea to me lol

 

[Marston]

But seeing how there never was an official version so far, any ressources people made should be ok, or atleast a grey area of sorts.

Seeing how claiming copright on something made specificly for something illegal...seems like a not so clever idea to me lol

That's not true for everything though. REFMAP for example explicitly said in their TOS that their sets can be used for (non)commercial games, as long as the softwarte is owned. It even explicitly said that the inofficial english translation was not allowed. That's why I think at least REFMAP is okay. But I am not sure about various other big artists, like Theodore (various modern sets), Roco (face- and charsets) or even viprpg (a giant japanese site where you can find stuff for pretty much everything - but no idea about their TOS since it's japanese).

 

[Archeia]

I think it's safe to say that Roco's materials are not available for commercial use because she never had stated that from what I know of.

 

[Marston]

I think it's safe to say that Roco's materials are not available for commercial use because she never had stated that from what I know of.

Well, not that I would sell a game in the near future... xD

But you think it would be okay for non commercial games? In that case I would use some of her sets.

 

[Archeia]

We definitely need to catalogued the materials appropriately so people would know which ones she made.