The rights of Resource Authors

My personal opinion is that when someone uploads something to a public site, you don't need to ask them for permission to use it AS LONG AS YOU GIVE THEM CREDIT.

- Blade.dk

I agree with VGSatomi, except in this point:

VGsatomicredits is only a curtousy. It should be a requirement, but we have no way to enforce that short of deleting every map that uses costom materials and didnt give credits to the authors...

Easy answer: If you don't want people to use your resourses, then don't make them.

Excuse me, but the courtesy is that some people spent their free time to make public resources for the mod\map makers. There seems to be a mentality here in wich a modeler is supposed to be at the service of everyone, and when they don't listen to requests, it's only because they are lazy bi***s
Ever heard of gratitude and\or respect for the work of someone?

Another thing that this thread has made me think, is that if some people are too lazy to write a line of credit, i wonder how much effort and entusiasm they have put in their scripting\terraining\object editing; activities that (are supposed to) require quite more time than writing a name in the readme.

I agree with everyone here pretty much, if someone uses something you made, give credit in the map, and preferably PM the maker, I love to know if people use what I make in their maps, it makes me wanna make more skins, spells, etc.

BTW if Land of Legends is uploaded to the site delete it, they used like 30 models from here and NO CREDIT was given to anyone.

Well, considering that there's no real practical way of enforcing it, curtousy is all it ammounts to, unfortunatly.

I've had my resourses used before and not once have I been given credit...but I was just happy my stuff was used in the first place. It's when people take credit FOR the actual makers is where blood gets flash-boiled. This is just my personal opinion, so take it for what it's worth, but If someone chose your skin or model above the thousands of others on this site and did it justice in putting it in their map, that is reward in of its self. Credits mainly are not only a tribute to the resourse maker, but also says a lot about the respectability of the mapper, and yes, I agree that laziness if the biggest cause of lach of credit giving. If someone else takes credit for your work, thats a diff story, (but you probably wont see that in the maps themsevles), and that is something we CAN enforce.
-VGsatomi