Question about picture usage licenses.

[Sopheria]

About a year ago a friend of mine sent a bunch of images for resources and its taken a while to go through all of them. ^_^; Recently I've gotten through the scenery section and there's a bunch of background images from a video game called Seinarukana, its apparently some type of visual novel or something similar to one, but I was wondering its illegal to use those images right?

Say if I wanted to create a visual novel but had no skills myself, I know there are images placed under creative commons for such purposes, but if as long as I'm not making a profit from this, is it still illegal?

I'm assuming it is... but wanted a second...third perhaps fourth opinion on it?

http://sta.sh/083d97cnhik
http://sta.sh/04pxkudkw2s
http://sta.sh/08x0blhzkpm

These above are just some examples of what I found in the folder my friend sent. There's like 30 more? I linked some from my da account for this message. I hope this is the right area to post this? Or would it have been better to post under creative commons
??? or Art I don't know >_<

[Asceai]

It's totally illegal. Go the creative commons route.

[Sopheria]

I thought so...a tiny piece of me wanted to believe otherwise. Thanks for the reply.



Not really looking for anymore replies now. Don't feels its necessary.