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As a visual artist and coder, it is somewhat sad to see how this HN crowd all seem to question the license or the artist. If it were a coder that had published
by danybittel 5y ago
As a visual artist and coder, it is somewhat sad to see how this HN crowd all seem to question the license or the artist. If it were a coder that had published code in a book, and Capcom clearly used it in a commercial game, this discussion would look a lot different.
- acomjean 5y agoIt’s looks pretty clear the photos were taken. I think if you bought a coding book and it had functions, you’d likely be comfortable using that code as part of a bigger projects, with some modifications to suit your needs. As coders we don’t want to get trapped into a very high cost infringement event when it appears we’ve paid for something but the terms aren’t clear. $200 for a book/cd of textures seems weird that you wouldn’t get to use them. Can you imagine buying a font for “inspiration” but to use it requires another license. This also gets into a interesting grey area. They’re licensing photos of a cracked glass or a mansion door and all sorts of textures, but they didn’t create the door or the glass. some of the sculptural elements weren’t created by the photographer. As a photographer myself you can see where sometimes things get a little fuzzy. In the end the lawyers will work something out.