Actually Guitta... that's not true. If they have been purchased for use (which most were by myself) they can be used for commercial use. The ones that were collected from the web were free, and can also be used for commercial use. If the pictures were copyrighted legally (which most aren't except for a copyright notice and hardly anyone ever registers with the copyright bureau), and they are placed upon the web, the web is a free exchange of information, especially in pictures. Now... if you wanted to get into copyright legalities, once a picture which has been copyrighted has changed formats to be used in an entirely different way, the holder of the original copyright cannot pursue legal avenues due to the fact that the meduim has changed in the way it is used. For example... if you take a photograph of a dirt clod... and make it availble for use as a texture for let's say TrueSpace... you have the copyright only for the TrueSpace texture... however, if that same photo is transferred to another medium like Vue, the original copyright does not exist and is transferred to the person that created the texture in Vue. How do you think most of the web was created? Most of the time someone takes code from another site to add to their own. It's a free medium. But enough about that. I really don't think it would matter one way or another if I used a texture in my artwork and sold it, because I'm not Bill Gates, and will probably never even achieve that kind of recognition. And it would probably cost the person more to pursue a lawsuit then to just say to heck with it... so I really wouldn't worry about it.