Can we use free assets on marketplace for commercial purpose
You can use all free assets created by Epic Games for commercial purpose and for what you want as long as you use them inside Unreal Engine. About assets created by others people, all depend on the licensing. (Creative Commons, Royalty Free … )
Can i use Epic Games asset pack: Open World Demo Collection in Epic Content - UE Marketplace
For selling developed assets by my team on the marketplaces?
Exactly how do we know what type of licensing is used on any independent asset pack?
In short, the way I understand it:
In general, yes, you can use the free assets from the marketplace for games you make and sell using Unreal Engine, and for movies you render out of Unreal Engine.
You cannot use the assets to make some other kind of pack/content you redistribute (no matter whether for money or not,) and you cannot use the free assets for games or movies that don’t use Unreal Engine.
Paid-for assets may come with different licenses, depending on the creator, but many of the paid-for assets have a very similar license to the above.
For any particular use in any particular jurisdiction, you need to read the specific legal text of the license agreement and have your legal professional advise you on the specific use.
Thanks for the info, so all free assets are allowed to be used in commercial. I heard if you get more than 100k yearly you have to buy a license.
Note that FAB changed the rules a little bit compared to the previous Unreal Engine Marketplace. You are replying to a post from two years ago, when the Unreal Marketplace was the only source of these assets. Now it’s FAB.
However, don’t worry about what “you heard” – read the actual license. That’s what matters.
Also note that the Unreal Engine itself has licensing requirements that may or may not matter to you depending on how you use it and how much your game makes.
Those rules also changed with Unreal Engine 5.5 compared to 5.4 and earlier.
The current FAB license says:
You are only eligible for a Personal - Reference Only tier or Personal tier if, at the time of the Transaction you, together with any controlling entity and other entities under common control with you, have not generated more than $100,000 USD in gross revenue from your commercial activity in the digital content industry in the last 12 months.
Note that some content may also be CC-BY licensed, so check the specific asset for details!
Understood. Thanks again!