Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12395

"*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.* This is *so* mistaken. The photograph itself is under copyright as soon as the camera shutter is clicked, and that copyright belongs to the person clicking the shutter. The copyrighted photo is still copyrighted when the copyright owner modifies it for use as a Truspace texture or however else they choose to use it. But *no one else* has the right to modify, reformat, dissect, change it without specific permission granted by the copyright holder -- the person who snapped the shutter on the camera. B3fore continuing to pass along someone else's work as your own, it'd be best to make a visit to the Copyright Forum to learn the truth about copyright.