Talk:Hi Cut Shoes for KURURU

Hi-- I'm new here. I'm sorting a bunch of ancient Poser files on a ZIP drive I have, and I have found I have a bunch of files listed as no longer available. I know this item was originally available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20161024130210/http://casiopea.jp/download.htm But the link is dead. Would it be okay for me to put it on my MEGA drive and link it here since it was a freebie originally? I still have this one! --Dreaming.Prince (talk) 18:05, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

That depends. Just because something is free does not mean redistribution is legal, you must verify that there has been permission granted by the original artist for you or anyone else to redistribute the freebie. Since Casiopea does not include a read me file in the freebie and we don't know what the intentions of the artist were, this wiki identifies the item as being unavailable and that there has been no action of change to the legal status of the freebie. It is therefore assumed by the moderators that no alternate location of the freebie is available to which the site can legally link to.--Dollygirl (talk) 07:46, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Oh, that's true-- I didn't consider that. That said I have a bunch of old content on my drive to go through. I'll be trying to contact a few artists to see if I can gain permission for sure because I have a lot of old things that are missing here. Here's hoping I can get permission. --Dreaming.Prince (talk) 19:10, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Oh that would be wonderful. Always nice to put the old stuff back out there for use. I wish you luck in your search. --Dollygirl (talk) 01:34, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

There is one exception to what Dollygirl mentioned about redistribution: the Wayback Machine, at archive.org, has a legal exemption to certain parts of copyright law because it's legally treated as a library. They're allowed to redistribute freebies if they were copied from the original websites. If we can find a link there, we're good to share that link. (This is why we have so many archive.org links on the wiki.) --Robkelk (talk) 14:01, 24 February 2020 (UTC)