Thanks for everyone's responses but I ended up giving up on these files and will create everything again myself. The company chose not to risk any kind of copyright issues, I don't blame them. It is an experience that I will take as a learning experience, if you want something well done, do it yourself.
I think the same way, but as I mentioned, it's not just up to me, because the company I'm going to sell the customized version to didn't accept the purchase unless the original creator gives explicit permission for use based on the license he made available here in the website. I'm pretty strict with that, even projects in the public domain. I like to have clear permission from the original creator.
The big problem here is that on the original creator's website he makes the same objects available under a CC0 license, but at the same time prevents the objects from being resold in any way.
Thanks for the answers! I've already made my decision, if the original creator doesn't comment on it, I'll discard this project and create it myself. In the future I'll think twice before taking the risk of using objects with a CC0 license, because even though I'm absolutely sure I'm not doing anything wrong, I don't want to have to deal with this type of situation.
I found the profile of the creator on the cgtrader website, apparently he is active there. I got in touch about it and will come back here with an answer so that other users don't have to go through this kind of situation, at least not with this specific project.
It makes sense. I think I have no choice but to recreate all the objects myself. This is a point that should be reviewed on sites that make content available under a CC0 license. I'm pretty sure I won't be infringing any copyright if the original creator misunderstood what public domain means, unfortunately the company I'm selling my work to doesn't think the same way.
The creator has not yet manifested in my question. It's very frustrating, I'm losing sales on the project I've had so much work to do because someone doesn't understand the distribution rules. The company which is negotiating the project has suspended the purchase until I have a clear answer about it. =\
I think the same way. The creator must not be aware of what a Public Domain license really is because on his website it is also explicit that this license is.
The files have been corrected, textured and tweaked to what I want. I intend to sell as part of a project, not the files that were downloaded, but my fully customized version.
Thanks for everyone's responses but I ended up giving up on these files and will create everything again myself. The company chose not to risk any kind of copyright issues, I don't blame them. It is an experience that I will take as a learning experience, if you want something well done, do it yourself.
I think the same way, but as I mentioned, it's not just up to me, because the company I'm going to sell the customized version to didn't accept the purchase unless the original creator gives explicit permission for use based on the license he made available here in the website. I'm pretty strict with that, even projects in the public domain. I like to have clear permission from the original creator.
The big problem here is that on the original creator's website he makes the same objects available under a CC0 license, but at the same time prevents the objects from being resold in any way.
Thanks for the answers! I've already made my decision, if the original creator doesn't comment on it, I'll discard this project and create it myself. In the future I'll think twice before taking the risk of using objects with a CC0 license, because even though I'm absolutely sure I'm not doing anything wrong, I don't want to have to deal with this type of situation.
I found the profile of the creator on the cgtrader website, apparently he is active there. I got in touch about it and will come back here with an answer so that other users don't have to go through this kind of situation, at least not with this specific project.
It makes sense. I think I have no choice but to recreate all the objects myself. This is a point that should be reviewed on sites that make content available under a CC0 license. I'm pretty sure I won't be infringing any copyright if the original creator misunderstood what public domain means, unfortunately the company I'm selling my work to doesn't think the same way.
The creator has not yet manifested in my question. It's very frustrating, I'm losing sales on the project I've had so much work to do because someone doesn't understand the distribution rules. The company which is negotiating the project has suspended the purchase until I have a clear answer about it. =\
I think the same way. The creator must not be aware of what a Public Domain license really is because on his website it is also explicit that this license is.
The files have been corrected, textured and tweaked to what I want. I intend to sell as part of a project, not the files that were downloaded, but my fully customized version.