First. I know most, if not all of you, aren’t lawyers and I should take the advice given at face value.
That said, I stand with the good guys here, I don’t steal models that I will make money on, i barely sell anything I do anyway and do it just to give my creative side an outlet.
To the point, I am “creative” and love to mashup models and make things out of models but, I am no sculptor, the parts I can’t create I download and use. Again most of what I do is for myself which is how the models are intended to be used. I’ve come to a point where others “like my ideas”, want me to make it for them so they can then resell or mold or whatever they want to do. Some of it I can create myself, other parts I can easily find models for but here is where I get lost and/or am not certain on.
In any scenario, ask someone to make, ask someone if I can pay to use commercially or go some place like 5er or even here and commission someone to make what I need with a license agreement I can do what I need to do with it. How the hell do I know they didn’t use someone else’s something to make all or some of what I paid them to make? I don’t want to end up on the end of a lawsuit or complaint or whatever with the “ignorance” defense, “well I paid them to make it, they stole it not me”.
Apologies this is getting long winded. So in short, I know some of you guys likely do similar things. Blanket made up example, “I want a model of a car tire with a tiger head bighting a bowling pin model” that I can deliver to a customer to mold and cast in whatever they want to sell.
How would/do ya’ll approach that situation? I know , don’t waste time suggesting I learn how to model. I am learning but, the levels at which I need things done, ie: sculpting, will take forever, if ever, for me to learn so lets assume I am going to pay or come to some agreement with someone to handle the skilled sculpting side.
Appreciate any advice or suggestions. Thanks all.
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