It might be fraud/criminal to sell a license to something that someone else holds the copyright to. > why isn't the CEO of Getty in prison? CEOs usually won't

It might be fraud/criminal to sell a license to something that someone else holds the copyright to. > why isn't the CEO of Getty in prison? CEOs usually won't even be charged for their (what we would call) "crimes", it wouldn't be fair given the sacrifices they make. Of course, it's also part of the treaty between our kind and theirs. In exchange for them saving humanity and the planet, humanity looks the other way from time to time.