How does this KEEP GETTING WORSE??

  • catloaf@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    What do you think would happen if the mod authors filed a DMCA takedown against the game?

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      Their lawyers tie you up with a lot of legal fees trying to get you to defend it, if you don’t they take you to court for a frivolous suit.

      Either way they win and you lose, even if you’re right.

      I don’t see it playing out positive unfortunately.

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        1 year ago

        Ahahahaha I want to live in your world instead of the one we actually live in.

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      Nothing. Modders suddenly feeling they should be paid is really entitled and kind of crazy. Hey I made some fan art of a marvel character, should marvel pay me?

      Modding isn’t a job, and you can’t make money off of someone else’s game

      • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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        You’re conflating two different things.

        There’s modders who whine about working for free. And yes, modding is a choice.

        Where in this incident is stolen work.

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          It’s not work . I’m currently modding a game, it’s a hobby. And I’d be entitled as hell to think I should be paid for it.

          This “pay the modders” thing will just lead to more micro transactions. You want to download that created wrestler in the new game? It was made by so and so, you now owe. $9.99. fuck that

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        Hey I made some fan art of a marvel character, should marvel pay me?

        When they use that fan art in the next official marvel movie, yes absolutely they should.

        • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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          But it’s their character, you didn’t ask permission to make the art out of a copyright, why should they pay you?

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            It’s their character, but it’s your work.

            They cant just steal your work for their own monetary gain, just the same as you cant steal their character for your own monetary gain.

            Both sides have contributed something here, but one side is profiting off the other through theft.

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              But the rub is, under fair use you can’t profit from it though, so as soon as you accept payment, now they can sue you. So in the end, they win and get it for free regardless.

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                If the rights holders enter into a contract and pay you for your work, I don’t think they can turn around and sue you for making a profit off of it. I’m no lawyer, but I don’t think the law is that far gone.

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                  But how can they make a contract? Signing it would violate fair use exemption before that could be argued.

                  Corps are abusing a conflict within the laws, it’s not even a loophole, it’s just the unfortunate way the laws that protect each person/industry don’t agree.

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                    Contracting someone to use an artwork they made of your character would implicitly grant a license for them to make commercial profit off of that transaction.

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                Profit is not explicitly one of the four factors of fair use.

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        That isn’t what a DMCA is for. Someone being compensated for the work they’ve done is unrelated to suing a company for using your art/code/work without permission or reference. Weirdly aggressive to modders though.

        Edit: for your edit, you can’t monetise a mod for someone’s else’s game directly but you can absolutely make money modding. And even if their EULA enables them to do so, taking a modders code without at least a reference is pretty dogshit. Literally a million dollar studio ripping off people who did it out of passion knowing full well they wouldn’t get compensated. I’m surprised a EULA can protect them legally for doing it tbh.