Question about stolen material

[Forcystus9]

I'm very sure that the game Infectonator has stolen images.

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  Infectonator! by toge-games

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  Game

  Rated

  Ages 13+

I think they stole the images from this program.
http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/product.html?
prod=vx

I can provide more images and videos as well. However, I am not a representative from Enterbrain.

[Sheizenhammer]

Using images from unoriginal sources is not grounds for calling a flash stolen, as almost every single sprite movie on Newgrounds will attest.

Only if significant amounts of the game itself was ripped directly from another source (read: programming, layout, gameplay system AND images), or if the whole file was simply downloaded from a website (by someone other than the original creator) and posted here, does it actually count as stolen. A few images here and there is fair game as far as NG is concerned, since the majority of the flash is still made by the person submitting it.

[Callum123456]

At 2/7/11 06:40 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: Using images from unoriginal sources is not grounds for calling a flash stolen, as almost every single sprite movie on Newgrounds will attest.

The authors of sprite movies don't/shouldn't make money from them, this game has ads in so it is a whole different story.

Only if significant amounts of the game itself was ripped directly from another source (read: programming, layout, gameplay system AND images), or if the whole file was simply downloaded from a website (by someone other than the original creator) and posted here, does it actually count as stolen. A few images here and there is fair game as far as NG is concerned, since the majority of the flash is still made by the person submitting it.

You can't use any copyrighted material in your game if you want to release it commercially.

Although in this case, I think it's fine as long as they have bought RPG Maker.

[Forcystus9]

Thanks, I was just curious.