Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27511601-20170107190552/@comment-32626383-20170719193929

Ok i'm just going to add my two cents here:

None of the assets were "stolen". Either they were created, bought, or they were free. That is the only way to obtain these assets. Any use of said assets after obtaining (unless specified beforehand, which was not) is completely within RT's right to do so. If RT wants to use the hair from artist#15152 then so be it, they own that asset and they can use it for whatever purpose they see fit.

I've seen a lot of people saying RT "stole" assets. That's a legal accusation, one which bears a whole lot of problems

The first problems is that most of these "stolen" assets are from copyrighted IP's anyway. (Touhou / bleach) Meaning that the MMD makers have virtually no grounds to stand on in court as parody =/= ownership of original IP. (Something a lot of artist forget).

The second problem is in how RT obtained them directly contradicts the word "stealing" outside of perhaps the Skyrim werewolf. Most of the other stuff, especially Montecore, is completely within legal right to use after obtaining legally.

Third none of this has concluded to be characters as a whole. This is the main point you have to drive home, that plagiarism isn't appropriating tiny designs, it's ripping off the idea as a whole.