Free asset to publish game

[Ryiah]

Worrisome answer: Be aware that anyone is able to upload an asset to the store and that outside of very obvious cases there is no guarantee that the asset isn’t ripped from an existing game. Below are a couple of recent threads about this subject.

Guy selling ripped copyrighted models on the asset store

Came across this guy on the asset store selling some models ripped from asian games. https://assetstore.unity.com/publishers/41637 For example https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/humanoids/ssrcharacterpack-143165 is from this game https://store.steampowered.com/app/551170/Onmyoji/ and the mobile version https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netease.onmyoji.gb&hl=en the models can be found on this chinese site for ripped assets https://www.byzhihuo.com/thread-13311-1…

Copyright issue assets

I feel really insecure about the asset store because of this thread : I thought when I buy an asset I can use it in my commercial game without copyright issues when there is no extra condition or license mentioned in the asset. Now it seems that unity sells assets which violate copyright issues like a batmobil or saber lights. I spend a lot of money for 3d assets rather than using free sides because I thought that the assets are safe! Isn’t that kinda illegal that unity earns money with cop…