License question

Hello,

In short, you can sell anything you do with the model (animations, renders, games ...), but not the model, not even as part of a whole or modifying it partially. For more information you can find the FAQ section

https://help.cgtrader.com/terms-of-use-and-licenses

Thank´s for the quick respons,
I read that in your license but wasnt´t 100% sure about it!

It's not as simple as that. You can use models, obtained with royalty free licence, in image or video rendering (including commercial usage), but as far as i know, you can't sell such material on stock marketplaces. Usually those marketplaces has much stronger moderation of submited content and simply won't accept your video if they suspect incorrcet usage of material. You may want to doublecheck the rules of microstock sites first.

My general understanding on this is that the model/design must be a smaller part of a bigger production that one made him/herself or with help of other content purchased, so that the produced results can be considered a new unique work.

So simply downloading a product/scene/design and take some renders of it and consider it a new product would not suffice.

(I would definitely not approve if somebody did this with my work)

I think its safe to say that the general rule of thumb is that there must be some bigger scenery, composition, game or project where the stock model would be a smaller part of it (say +/- comprise 30% of it at max).

So a product on its own cannot be used to simply derive a new product from it without sufficient additions or alterations so that it could be considered a new unique work (say +/- add 70% new stuff or alterations in the project).

For example, I ones had a discussion on this with someone offering kitbash sets and he told me that only 30% of his set could be used for a model that would get in stock media and only on condition that the model itself would only comprise of maximum 30% of it, so 70% of the model would need to be parts made by oneself or from some other kitbash sets.

So in general in this case it would mean buy 3 to 4 different kitbash sets and only use 30% of each of them to make new models.

However, keep in mind that there would be artists that would not allow a single part get in a stock media model, so its always wise to ask/negotiate with every artists and get written permission/license before using their work to derive new products for stock media.

Remember, in cases of dispute only a judge can decide who has it right, but you want to avoid coming it to that right?