menthol opened this issue on Aug 25, 2007 · 79 posts
FrankT posted Sun, 26 August 2007 at 8:19 PM
Quote - I don't think that downloading an image from the internet amounts to a copyright infringement, even if the site, from which the download takes place, claims that it does.
Want to bet on that ?
Downloading images from any site, be it Renderosity or the owners own website, is breaching the image owners copyright - the fact that it happens doesn't make it legal.
Downloading stuff from the freestuff section is different, they are not images and the fact that there is a download link is sufficient permission to download it. Also any readmes with the download explain explicitly (or should anyway) what can or cannot be done with whatever it is you've downloaded.