Author Topic: Free materials and textures. 3D animation can sell on fotolia, shutterstock? (Read 6704 times)

createstock · « **on:** December 30, 2016, 07:07 »

Hello

I create 3D graphics and animations in a blender. Blender There are no materials or textures. At blendermada.com and more sites are free materials for commercial use.

Fotolia writes. You must be the author of the file and Total elements of art.

Is the use of free materials and textures on the license CC0 to 3D models and animation for sale is legal?

Artist · « **Reply #1 on:** December 30, 2016, 10:20 »

Quote from: createstock on December 30, 2016, 07:07

Hello

I create 3D graphics and animations in a blender. Blender There are no materials or textures. At blendermada.com and more sites are free materials for commercial use.

Fotolia writes. You must be the author of the file and Total elements of art.

Is the use of free materials and textures on the license CC0 to 3D models and animation for sale is legal?

Using any free for commercial license is totally not allowed in microstock.

Coming to 3d, I think you can use the inbuild materials which do not involve any texture (maybe gold, silver, platinum etc), for textured materials I will suggest you to take your own photograph and use them in the material editor.
But its better read their license first or contact them directly with the question.

michaeldb · « **Reply #2 on:** December 30, 2016, 20:15 »

The relevant question about using any graphics software, elements, plugins, actions, textures or whatever is: Does the software license allow you to use the software to create images of which you are the copyright? If the answer is yes, then you can use the software to make microstock images. Because when you "sell microstock" images you are really granting a license to someone to use the image to which you own the copyright.

For example, what if Adobe did not allow you to use the fonts or filters in Photoshop to create images of which you are the copyright owner? Adobe would go out of business overnight - their software would be virtually useless because that's what people use it for, to create images of which they own the copyright.

Most 3D software grants you the license to create images of which you own the copyright. A few do not. One example is Turbosquid, the largest seller of 3D models for 3DS Max and other 3D software. Turbosquid's license forbids the use of models to create stock images. But, as I said, this is an exception.

suwanneeredhead · « **Reply #3 on:** December 30, 2016, 20:56 »

michaeldb are you an Aspie? Temple Grandin is one of us

Regarding the topic, no, it's not okay to submit "free for commercial use" type artwork. The question is asked every few months and I am having trouble understanding why they don't understand that. It's my aspie brain, I guess.

Stacey

michaeldb · « **Reply #4 on:** December 30, 2016, 23:44 »

Quote from: suwanneeredhead on December 30, 2016, 20:56

michaeldb are you an Aspie?

Stacey, I've never been diagnosed but I wouldn't be surprised. I admire Temple Grandin for sure, the way she used her disabilities to create abilities is a wonderful story and inspiration. Thinking in pictures is a useful ability for us illustrators.

createstock · « **Reply #5 on:** December 30, 2016, 23:53 »

michaeldb

I do not understand Adobe Photoshop does not allow commercial use filter noise, blur in the pictures? Which filters? Where can I find the source?

The program Blender is free for commercial use. https://www.blender.org/about/

Artist · « **Reply #6 on:** December 31, 2016, 01:20 »

Quote from: createstock on December 30, 2016, 23:53

michaeldb

I do not understand Adobe Photoshop does not allow commercial use filter noise, blur in the pictures? Which filters? Where can I find the source?

The program Blender is free for commercial use. https://www.blender.org/about/

The blender program is free or say open source, but the resources have license associated to it, there are plenty of websites which say free for commercial use but when you go through their license terms, they do not allow re-selling.

Why don't you directly ask them about it, we can only share suggestion but a concrete answer can be provided by their team only.

SpaceStockFootage · « **Reply #7 on:** December 31, 2016, 02:28 »

If they're in the public domain or CC0 then there should be no problem with it. Make sure they are public domain on CC0 though, as they may be labeled as such, when they're actually not. I think it's less about you being the creator and author of the artwork, and more about you being allowed to resell the artwork.

Otherwise, anybody who has a team of people creating stock would be breaking the rules, as the account holder/uploader may have not actually created the artwork. Take Yuri for example. Although, they will have an agreement/contract with the team member so that they can upload their work and profit from it accordingly.

And as already mentioned... 'free for commercial use' doesn't automatically mean you can sell on the work, whether that be 'as is' or incorporated in a larger project.

createstock · « **Reply #8 on:** December 31, 2016, 04:56 »

Artist
I know that the program is free Blender and you can not trade the same program. You can sell movies, animation water and other simulations, create shaders, materials and textures of this program.

SpaceStockFootage
Thank you for your answer. I think that the same can not Materials and textures sell license CC0. Only use materials to 3d models animation

Is free pictures on the license CC0 also be used for graphic animation. For example, the planet will be the background?

SpaceStockFootage · « **Reply #9 on:** December 31, 2016, 06:31 »

Doesn't matter whether it's pictures, textures, footage, audio or models... if they're in the public domain then you can do what you want with them.

I use some NASA elements in my animations as they're in the public domain, just like a lot of other stock artists and effects houses do. Even the head of the media department at NASA gave an interview a while back, saying that even if somebody wanted to download stills and footage from their website and just re-upload upload them to stock sites (without altering them), then there's absolutely nothing wrong with that due to them being in the public domain. That's maybe taking it a bit too far, but it's in the rules.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #10 on:** December 31, 2016, 07:37 »

While you may hold the copyright on a derivative work using public domain content or licensed content, merely uploading unmodified work would violate the question "do you hold the copyright to this image".

SpaceStockFootage · « **Reply #11 on:** December 31, 2016, 08:52 »

That's true. For sites that ask that question.

michaeldb · « **Reply #12 on:** December 31, 2016, 21:02 »

Quote from: Artist on December 31, 2016, 01:20

Quote from: createstock on December 30, 2016, 23:53
michaeldb

I do not understand Adobe Photoshop does not allow commercial use filter noise, blur in the pictures? Which filters? Where can I find the source?

The program Blender is free for commercial use. https://www.blender.org/about/

The blender program is free or say open source, but the resources have license associated to it, there are plenty of websites which say free for commercial use but when you go through their license terms, they do not allow re-selling.

Why don't you directly ask them about it, we can only share suggestion but a concrete answer can be provided by their team only.

This is correct. I do not know how to explain the basic idea of intellectual property licensing here but I will try again. Most graphics software, such as Blender or Photoshop, DO allow you to make images using them, else what is the point of having such software? The question is, after using the software do you own the copyright to the image you made? If the answer is yes, then you can sell the image on microstock sites, because what you are selling to other people is a license to use your image. And you can only do that if you own the copyright.

Owning and licensing copyright is the basic concept of microstock. If you do not understand what that means, find some way to learn what it means. Otherwise you will never understand what business you are in.

createstock · « **Reply #13 on:** January 01, 2017, 04:42 »

michael db

Sorry for the poor English language.

It's obvious that if I create an animation or graphics (Blender, Photoshop), then I am the author of the file and have copyrights. So I can give the Royalty Free license to microstock.

I'm not going to use the same free photos, graphics for Licence CC0 to microstock only to its assembly 3d animation or graphics as it says SpaceStockFootage.

That's why I asked about the requirements of Fotolia and other microstock as in the case of such use (You must be the author of the file and Total elements of art.)

michaeldb · « **Reply #14 on:** January 01, 2017, 20:18 »

Quote from: createstock on January 01, 2017, 04:42

michael db

Sorry for the poor English language.

It's obvious that if I create an animation or graphics (Blender, Photoshop), then I am the author of the file and have copyrights. So I can give the Royalty Free license to microstock.

I'm not going to use the same free photos, graphics for Licence CC0 to microstock only to its assembly 3d animation or graphics as it says SpaceStockFootage.

That's why I asked about the requirements of Fotolia and other microstock as in the case of such use (You must be the author of the file and Total elements of art.)

No reason to apologize. I could have made myself clearer. I think that microstock sites say things like "You must be the author of the file and Total elements of art." to try to protect themselves as much as possible without really meaning that. The key concept is copyright. I used to submit a statement with my images saying, "I am the copyright owner" and if there were any questionable elements include evidence that I had a right to use them. For example if you use a font in your image, include a link to the site and even to the usage license on the site. It is like a model or property release in a way. It always worked for me (I don't do microstock anymore).

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