| I'm looking at the license again, and it doesn't say you can't resell the texture. Not in those words. It says you can't sell derivative works where the original materials can be extracted.
Can you extract the original materials of the Manhattan texture package from Minnu Palen's skin? It remains the key question. Signed up at Renderosity, poked around their forums and their website, and they don't give any better definition of "original materials" then the brief example in the license.
Perhaps drifting a bit, this strikes me as being exactly the same as the license terms of a place like ArtToday (err, Clipart.com these days) or Dover's series of clipart books, and I'm a little more familiar with those than I am with Renderosity. Their licenses are aimed at stopping people from taking the royalty-free materials they license and creating a competing resource.
I can't help but think that Renderosity's license seems primarily concerned with preventing buyers from turning around and competing with the sellers using their own products. Which may not be entirely within the scope of what the Marketplace sellers want or deserve.
sezmra,
I don't know that this is relevant. A photoreal rendering can still be photosourced, surely? If someone photosources from a photoreal rendering using the Manhattan texture package, is _that_ extracting "original materials"? |