These are Deviants rules on Art theft. It says stuff about video game art so wouldn't sig making be considered art theft? Wouldn't rendering be considered art theft?? What does deviantART consider to be Art Theft? Copyright Infringement (aka "Art Theft" or "Ripping") Current deviantART policy defines 'Art Theft' to be any situation where a user takes the original art, photography, or writing of another person (a 'third party') and then either misrepresents the original, unaltered work as one of their own creations or includes the work (either altered or unaltered) in a new image. Generally speaking any submission which is directly built upon the existing work of another artist or photographer can be considered to be a case of art theft. These works may feature screenshots, official artwork from a video game, scans from an art book, artwork found on a website somewhere on the internet or a photograph of a famous person (just to name a few examples), but in every case the 'seed image' is the legal property of another artist. In many cases these 'seed images' are manipulated, colored over, blended with other images, and otherwise digitally worked over but none of this makes the use acceptable or allowed. These submissions will be removed regardless of whether you have credited or linked back to the original source. Knowing where you ‘found’ the original image or knowing who created it or took the photo is not the same as actually having the legal permission to use it in your submission.
most renders are from stock websites (where they have allowed the use of the stock) or from wallpapers, these wallpapers are generally from images from the game maker,who have released them to do as they please, as for promotion of the game. Daz
that is deviantart's rules. All the renders on this site are publically released (like gamewallpapers) with the rules that you can use them for your own purposes without directly stating that it belongs to the actual creator of the image, but you cannot claim as your own. if it is a copyrighted image (such as everything on DA) then you must ask the author in order to use it (which is still against DA, but you cant really get in trouble for it if the author gave you permission). In short, you cant take anything from DA without asking the artist. Sites that are often rendered from (GW.com, google image sites, ewallpapers, etc.) often directly state you can use them for personal use without claiming them as your own or using them for personal profit (which is somewhat illegal here since you are selling signatures/art with other people artwork in it for your own personal use).
