The legality of using Live Wallpapers made by creators in the Wallpaper Engine’s Workshop for non-commercial purposes

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Hi,

I am currently learning to be a web developer and I have a personal web project in which I want to use some live wallpapers for a page background. Are the live wallpapers in the Steam Workshop of the Wallpaper Engine free to be used outside of Wallpaper Engine? Is it okay if I use live wallpapers from the Workshop for this non-commercial, personal project of mine?

I would make sure that the creators of the live wallpapers are credited in my project (by putting captions and links below each images to the creators of the wallpapers). Also, I noticed that the live wallpapers themselves also use static wallpapers obtained from other artists, and I will make sure to give credits for the OG artists as well.

Thanks!

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This is not a legal advice.

Is it legal to use works without asking the author? It's probably not, especially when you consider that >95% of wallpapers are animated without consent of the authors in the first place, as you correctly noticed:

Originally posted by LucknutBoi:

I noticed that the live wallpapers themselves also use static wallpapers obtained from other artists

Some creators hope that the nature of wallpaper being free + crediting the author will, if not mitigate completely, at least reduce risk of getting DMCA'd, but you can't ever be sure.

Copyright is very complicated. From what I read, if one person makes something, let's say an artwork, and someone else animates it, unless agreed differently, both of them now hold copyright for their works (if it's done legally of course, if the animation was done with the consent of the author), painter has now copyright for painting and animated artwork, and animator has copyright just for animation itself, and for you to use this animation you need the consent of both people. I'm referring here to Copyright in derivative works. https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf
I might be wrong on this, though.
Again, this is not a legal advice, do with this information whatever you want.