Legal Question About Ron's/Rajraja's Brushes/Backgrounds...

Xenomorphine

I know we're allowed to use art we've created with 3D products in Daz Studio for personal or even commercial reasons. I even found a book, a few months ago, which had certain spaceships within it which I recognised, with much amusement, from the official Daz store. :)

However, does this extend to the various brushes, textures and entire 2D backgrounds, as found in Ron's and Rajraja's products? Could I create, say, a picture of a mermaid, use some relevant water-themed brushes, place it in front of a supplied watery background and use the end result in promotional work or even commercially sell it as my own work?

frank0314

Yes you can do that as long as your not selling the actual brush.

Chohole

And of course, as regards the backgrounds, it musn't be possible to extract the background from the image, so it shouldn't be too prominent in the iamge

 

Xenomorphine

Excellent! Thanks, guys! I figured it probably wouldn't be too much of a problem with the brushes, but thought the backgrounds might be an issue. That's good news, though!

Etrigan

In addition to Chohole's coment. And maybe this is obvious, but be sure you hold the rights for commercial use on the background image. Shutterstock will take action if you pull  their image off the web and don't pay for the rights.

Subtropic Pixel

Chohole said:

And of course, as regards the backgrounds, it musn't be possible to extract the background from the image, so it shouldn't be too prominent in the iamge

What, wait a minute!  How is it even possible to put this responsibility on the purchaser of these products?

Any modern photo editing program and even a number of screen-capture applications can do this even with only a sliver of the object visible.

Furthermore, I don't remember seeing this spelled out in any EULAs.  Where is this clause documented?

Chohole

Under Terms of use in the EULA  

from which any Content, or any part thereof, or any substantially similar version of the Content can be separately exported, extracted or de-compiled into any re-distributable form or format.