After some googling this is how I understand it now:
1. The names are trademarked, so you should use a different name in game to avoid violation here.
2. About copyright, it looks like no one really knows because there are two things at play: firstly, utilitarian design can't be copyrighted, that is the design that's not considered artistic expression but an engineering result, so a general gun or car shape can't be copyrighted. However the design may contain embedded elements that are considered art work such as engravings or purely aestetic decorations, and there may indeed also be trademarks. No one will tell you exactly where the line is between utilitarian design and the rest.
I am a person who tends to play it safe and in borderline cases I go by the worst case scenario, even considering the laws and precedents may change slightly during time and that laws are different between countries, so there may likely exist time and place where this is violating something. So I'd be pretty cautious here, I'd definitely prefer if the model wasn't an exact copy, had some small differences and was posted under different name. Anyway, that's just me,it would be a shame to take down such a nice model, maybe this could be settled by adding some comment on this to the description plus a recommendation to not use the real model name? After all Wikimedia Commons, a place that hosts only free files, allows it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sa_vz._61_%C5%A0korpion.
@buttons copyright and trademark applies to mods as it does to any other work such as fanfiction etc., it just passes because as you say corporations don't really care about hobbyists doing small non-commercial derivative works. Anyway this doesn't matter, this site is for free files only and free files mustn't rely on things like fair use or ignorance of the right owners. Free files must be legally safe to be used even in completely commercial projects.
Very nice model, but I think specific gun models are "protected" by some kind of intellectual property as are e.g. cars, you need a license to use it in a game so it can't be libre, not sure if it can be hosted here. Anyhow, thanks for sharing.
Yes, but with such a low resolution as 32x32 it doesn't look good, it's similar to font -- at very low resolutions it's better to have manually drawn bitmaps rather than rendering from vector format. However I am thinking about creating 3D models of these sprites, then you could try how it would actually look (I think at 64x64 it would be usable). We'll see.
It's great to see the OGA assets in that video working together, I recognize all these works from different people. Thanks for the credit and for letting me know about the project :)
I extremely much like the attitude of your posts, just small and simple no-PBR no-HD good old textures, plus CC0, becautiful. We need more of these.
> Sick of all the cartoony graphics?
Yes TBH :) I love to see this beautiful oldschool look again. May I ask where the textures are from?
Interesting, haven't seen many similar posts :) Freedoom is one of my favorite games. Is this going to be included in the official backstory?
amazing job
After some googling this is how I understand it now:
1. The names are trademarked, so you should use a different name in game to avoid violation here.
2. About copyright, it looks like no one really knows because there are two things at play: firstly, utilitarian design can't be copyrighted, that is the design that's not considered artistic expression but an engineering result, so a general gun or car shape can't be copyrighted. However the design may contain embedded elements that are considered art work such as engravings or purely aestetic decorations, and there may indeed also be trademarks. No one will tell you exactly where the line is between utilitarian design and the rest.
I am a person who tends to play it safe and in borderline cases I go by the worst case scenario, even considering the laws and precedents may change slightly during time and that laws are different between countries, so there may likely exist time and place where this is violating something. So I'd be pretty cautious here, I'd definitely prefer if the model wasn't an exact copy, had some small differences and was posted under different name. Anyway, that's just me,it would be a shame to take down such a nice model, maybe this could be settled by adding some comment on this to the description plus a recommendation to not use the real model name? After all Wikimedia Commons, a place that hosts only free files, allows it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sa_vz._61_%C5%A0korpion.
@buttons copyright and trademark applies to mods as it does to any other work such as fanfiction etc., it just passes because as you say corporations don't really care about hobbyists doing small non-commercial derivative works. Anyway this doesn't matter, this site is for free files only and free files mustn't rely on things like fair use or ignorance of the right owners. Free files must be legally safe to be used even in completely commercial projects.
Very nice model, but I think specific gun models are "protected" by some kind of intellectual property as are e.g. cars, you need a license to use it in a game so it can't be libre, not sure if it can be hosted here. Anyhow, thanks for sharing.
I dig the rightmost one.
Yes, but with such a low resolution as 32x32 it doesn't look good, it's similar to font -- at very low resolutions it's better to have manually drawn bitmaps rather than rendering from vector format. However I am thinking about creating 3D models of these sprites, then you could try how it would actually look (I think at 64x64 it would be usable). We'll see.
Yes, follow the link in the description :)
It's great to see the OGA assets in that video working together, I recognize all these works from different people. Thanks for the credit and for letting me know about the project :)
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