Thanks for the reply. Just to clarify the "stories" are actual newspaper articles i've read. Only recently a case of a german law firm became public that used webcrawlers and systematically sent cease and desist letters for bloggers and webadmins. They claimed sums between 500 and 5000€, which might not be much for a company but certainly it is for indie devs, thats what I meant by "immensely high".
"The internet is one of the worst places to gather information about serious topics like law or medicine"
You're right there that's because people seem to know very little about those topics (or even worse half truths or nonsense), copyright law is a prime example, that's why I posted here in the first place. Judging on the number of sprite-rips that get released on the internet mostly using a wrong license or using sentences like "feel free to use this" I would argue that one can not make a fair assumption that the artist indeed knows copyright law and has done everything right.
Even on OGA various non-free material was released without anyone noticing for months. I found this: http://opengameart.org/content/random-spritesheets and found some issues (see my comment there) that initially made me think about the topic.
I recognize some of the art of Terraria. The most recoginzable beeing the goldfish, bench and bed.
The other art uses a very similar palette so it's likely those are edits too.
I don't know the license of Terraria's graphics, but since it's a commercial game (and I cannot find any information of the in game graphics license) I'd assume that they are non free.
Thanks for the reply. Just to clarify the "stories" are actual newspaper articles i've read. Only recently a case of a german law firm became public that used webcrawlers and systematically sent cease and desist letters for bloggers and webadmins. They claimed sums between 500 and 5000€, which might not be much for a company but certainly it is for indie devs, thats what I meant by "immensely high".
"The internet is one of the worst places to gather information about serious topics like law or medicine"
You're right there that's because people seem to know very little about those topics (or even worse half truths or nonsense), copyright law is a prime example, that's why I posted here in the first place. Judging on the number of sprite-rips that get released on the internet mostly using a wrong license or using sentences like "feel free to use this" I would argue that one can not make a fair assumption that the artist indeed knows copyright law and has done everything right.
Even on OGA various non-free material was released without anyone noticing for months. I found this: http://opengameart.org/content/random-spritesheets and found some issues (see my comment there) that initially made me think about the topic.
I recognize some of the art of Terraria. The most recoginzable beeing the goldfish, bench and bed.
The other art uses a very similar palette so it's likely those are edits too.
I don't know the license of Terraria's graphics, but since it's a commercial game (and I cannot find any information of the in game graphics license) I'd assume that they are non free.
http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Goldfish
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