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Originally Posted by Abraham
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Originally Posted by Sardaukar
these mods have done an incredible service to the game, one of the bigest problems wis getting these mods to the general public, and this is what X1 is going to do... the more normal users that get exposed to these mods, the more they will talk, lets face it, with out these mods, the game is not complete. Now, X1 are wrong and should be puniched for "stealing" even if they did it for the most part legaly... now if the community could take these mods, make sure they all played nice together, and made one big SIMPLE installer, I would pay money, even more if that money got donated to a good cause!!!
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The problem as I see it is that if X1 gets these stolen mods published in a commercial form, and if they make money from them, they may automatically have a strong de facto ownership claim since they have a financial stake on these mods - which means that if the original authors of these mods try to release those mods (which are their own work) for free, X1 could even take them to court and have their own case in terms of loss of revenue, etc. The courts very likely regard copyright as only meaningful when loss of revenue is at issue. In such a case, the courts could be persuaded to disallow testimony regarding the original authorship, since the original authors ascribed no monetary value to the mod. That means that anything in the Seewolfe mod could be deemed illegal for any of us to use in free mods, even if one of us was the original author of that part of the mod. If Seewolfe is released in commercial form, you can bet your bottom dollar that it will have a copyright attached to it. If X1 are unprincipled enough to steal other peoples' work, do you really think they would balk at using a lawsuit to take some modmakers to the cleaners financially?