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Originally Posted by Abraham
Hi Beery,
If what you describe is the legal situation then something sucks.
I am sure you are right that X-1 will claim copyrights over 'their' product. But would those copyrights (or more accurate: copy-wrongs) be upheld in Court against the modders who only intended to serve our community (and have some fun in the meantime)? And could that result in the Doomsday scenario you describe - modders being taken to Court for making available for free their own mods?
If it's true then the law makes stealing mods a lucrative side-job...
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I dunno. I'm no lawyer. I'm just speculating - bad habit I know. The problem is more related to fear than law anyway. If Seewolfe does have a copyright notice - which it undoubtedly will have, who among us knows the law enough to be sure that my doomsday scenario isn't possible. I know I don't, so I'm going to be a bit worried about publishing mods for free that some disreputable company has claimed a copyright on (albeit unfairly). Not that it'll stop me, but it will worry me, and others might decide they don't want the worry, so they won't use a mod they should be free to use, and that small defeat means that the good guys lose out, if only in a small way.