Is it Illegal to Use Assets from Another Game for Research Purposes?

There has been some legal rulings saying games and software cannot just claim to be licensed to you just for developers/publishers to claim more ownership of the game/software. If the button you click when you buy a game or software doesn’t blatantly say anything about being a license, it can count as ownership. But there has been rulings on both sides of , that they can claim anything to be a license, and that they cannot. More reading about topic here, ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_v._Autodesk,_Inc.

EULA’s aren’t very binding, a lot of time, their only power is to take away a license or game from you. If you aren’t actually breaking any laws there’s not much that can be done in response by the developer/publisher.