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As some of you know,our little group make extensive use of scratchbuilds and papercraft templates, such as those from Patoroch. I've acquired quite a few over the last couple of years and am looking to make them available on our site. Would I be infringing anyone's IP? I'm not talking about GW stuff (no f**king way am I tangling with them) but stuff like the Soviet Mech template, T-54 and M113 templates that I got for free... taking what is essentially public domian stuff that is already freely available and concentrating it in one place, would that cause any legal issues that anyone can think of?

Wow, I mean I think that's more a legal question than most people here could answer. But historicals can't be copyrighted as I understand, no one's going to contest that they somehow own the rights to T-54s.

If you remember who made the templates I'd include attribution just to be polite.

If the original artist has distributed them as freeware or under a creative commons licence you should be fine (although typically you will need to acknowledge them on your site and there will probably be creator data on the files which shouldn't be removed)

If you've just got them of a site where the artist has made them available to download probably not as they are going to be for personal use not forward distribution, although if you ask them they may well not have an issue with it

(it's not a question of the ownership of the original design it's the ownership of the 'work' done to get said design into a format you want to use whether it's scanning an original out of copyright book, or converting original scale plans into a papercraft model)