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About 3d model license

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Deleted User, Jun 14, 2020.

  1. Deleted User

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    can I use non commercial models in a game by changing them a bit?not the complete model i just need to take a part froma model licensed non commercial? is it possible to avoid license?
     
  2. Yes if your game is non-commercial.
    No.
     
  3. neginfinity

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    Depends on the license. You can't avoid the license by "changing model a bit" or in any other way.

    Basically, you need permission of the creator.

    If you're tyring to "borrow" commercial model, "change it a bit", and then "use it non-commercially", you can't do that, as that would be a copyright infringement. Meaning piracy.
     
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  4. sxa

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    It depends entirely on the original license. What you're describing, changing work someone else created, is called creating a derived work. Derived works inherit the ownership, and license, of the work they're derived from. Your changes don't somehow make the work yours, they don't negate the original copyright.

    (Think about it; if copyright could be 'taken over' by making any change to the original, the notion of copyright would be inherently useless in the first place.)

    So yeah the original license still holds.
     
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