Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27511601-20170107190552/@comment-4010415-20170204235819

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: ....Em, Chish, why do you mention "for use in MMD"? We've known for years they don't use Miku Miku Dance for the show's animation. They used Maya to make the characters, and Poser to animate them, and now they simply use Maya.

....Granted, multiple animation programs can use the same assets, so a 3D model that works in MMD likely works in Poser too. But still. I said that because the models that people are saying were stolen are mostly MMD models.

They're like "Look at this hair model you can download from this person for MMD! It looks like this RWBY character's hair model! Rooster Teeth stole it!!"

When there are a lot of MMD models out there that were literally converted from something else into an MMD model, and a lot of people put up MMD models for people to download and use for whatever they want. Granted, there are people who put up an MMD model for download and have a list of rules for it, like


 * Give credit to (insert person who made/converted it)


 * Do NOT use it for R18 material!!!


 * Do not use it for commercial gain (Which would be a big no-no for RWBY using the model, since RT makes money off it)


 * Do not edit this model


 * Do not use pieces of this model

Etc.

But there are also people who actually give a list of rules saying things like


 * You can use it for whatever you want


 * You are allowed to edit this model and its texture


 * You are allowed to use pieces of this model

So it depends on what the rules were for whatever models they did download.