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Use concept for modeling tutorial?
Hi all. I Am modeling and texturing artist for more than 7 year experience and i was thinking to use my free time to make modeling and texturing tutorial for gumroad. The problem is that legal question. Does anyone know what is legal and moral correct to take as concept. One option is to take something popular, like… -
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Generally, unless you have the permission, making a tutorial using another concept should be done with the full realisation that this tutorial might need to be removed if the concept owner requests it. People who make 'make Hogwarts from Lego' tutorials are doing this because they are fans and it is out of enjoyment of… -
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It is used in education purpose, and also, i am doing tutorial about modeling, not drawing. If you do tutorial of how to sculpt some actor, he cant sue you because you take his face as reference. If you on other hand use him to do model that will go in some cartoon, than he can sue you. That should apply to concept art as… -
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1) Is it legal? I don't know. But I suspect probably not. It doesn't matter much though because Gumroad is a private market place and can just delete your tutorial if they get a complaint or a DMCA takedown. 2) Could you get away with it? Maybe. Depends on whether the artist feels its worth their time to bother pursuing… -
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Not okay. Led Zeppelin are millionaires and well known, they could be the textbook definition of rich and famous. They don't know you exist and probably never will, even if you made a tutorial and they spent the remaining years of their life googling themselves they'd probably never find it. But if by some miracle they did… -
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"That is what lawyer in my company told me about those things" Something being legal doesn't mean that it is ethically right to do it, or in good taste. Using someone else's design for your own modeling tutorial without asking (regardless of it being free or commercial) ? I don't know if it is legal or not, but it is… -
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would it be so hard to ask if the concept artist allows you to do this? -
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If the concept is directly from an artist, just talk to them.
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