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Question about freebies and non-commerical usage?

TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,266
in The Commons

I have some software that is for non-commerical usage only.  Can I give out freebies with non-commerical usage limits of the stuff made with that software?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,072

    That would be up to the developers.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,729

    No if the freebies were promoting a business, NPO, and so on as that is commercial usage of that SW. And the freebies themselves couldn't be used commercially either by the recipients.

  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019
    edited June 2018

    For Freebies, they usually say if they are commercial or non-commercial use (for example, on Rendo, most of the freebies are non-commercial use, which means you can't sell the image you made using them, and it can't be used in a commercial sense later on neither). With other freebies, they often come with a readme that qualifies what it is good for usage. If there's nothing coming with the freebie, you have to assume that it is non-commercial only. You'd have to supply proof of evidence that you can use it in a commercial sense if push comes to pull.

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  • HavosHavos Posts: 5,581

    I would not say most of the freebies are non-commercial only, at not from least from rendo and sharecg. A number are, but fortunately the majority have a similar licence agreement to the one here (ie commercial renders ok, but no distribution of assets). I make a point of checking the licencing of any freebie I grab, as the vast majority of my work is commercial, so if the freebie states non-commercial only, I will generally skip it.

    Of course this has little to do with the OP question, which is about software creating assets, not the assets themselves. For that I would agree with Richard's point that you need to look at the usage terms set by the software, there is no general/legal rule for this as far as I know.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,729
    Havos said:

    I would not say most of the freebies are non-commercial only, at not from least from rendo and sharecg. A number are, but fortunately the majority have a similar licence agreement to the one here (ie commercial renders ok, but no distribution of assets). I make a point of checking the licencing of any freebie I grab, as the vast majority of my work is commercial, so if the freebie states non-commercial only, I will generally skip it.

    Of course this has little to do with the OP question, which is about software creating assets, not the assets themselves. For that I would agree with Richard's point that you need to look at the usage terms set by the software, there is no general/legal rule for this as far as I know.

    No, her question is about the assets that software creates, not the software itself, which is non-commercial use only license which isn't ambiguous really - if I have an education license for Maya or so on, that non-commercia education license means i can't use anything I produced with Maya using that license commercially. 

  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 3,037

    As I don't want to bother finding the small print, if it says "non commercial" it's a "non use" for me.

    It get's to strange, when a PA offers something to make freebies with, but gives it the non commercial status, which would make any freebie made with it non commercial too... which might get the maker of that freebie in a quite bad position if anybody would use it for anything resembling commercial use... way too difficult to keep all those conditions in my old brain...

  • Fae3DFae3D Posts: 2,845
    maikdecker said:

    As I don't want to bother finding the small print, if it says "non commercial" it's a "non use" for me.

    It get's to strange, when a PA offers something to make freebies with, but gives it the non commercial status, which would make any freebie made with it non commercial too... which might get the maker of that freebie in a quite bad position if anybody would use it for anything resembling commercial use... way too difficult to keep all those conditions in my old brain...

    +1

    Also, if there's any question about what you can do with the software, the only real concrete answers you can get are by asking the original creator. 

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