They’d have to change the content or pay the man prolly.
Comment on Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection used modder's work without credit
catloaf@lemm.ee 10 months ago
What do you think would happen if the mod authors filed a DMCA takedown against the game?
A_Toasty_Strudel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
xkforce@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ahahahaha I want to live in your world instead of the one we actually live in.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not work
ringwraithfish@startrek.website 10 months ago
If you make something and give it away for free, that’s fine.
If you make something and I sell it to the masses for a profit without your permission that’s theft.
fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It’s not about pay the modders so much as if the developer of the game took your mod, put it in the game proper, claimed it was their work, and charged people for it.
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can you link your mod files so I can sell them without your knowledge or consent please? Seeing as you have no problem with it…
catloaf@lemm.ee 10 months ago
dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/…/work
I found several definitions where this meets the definition of “work”, but I’m interested to hear your argument about how “time and effort spent doing a task” is not work.
skulblaka@startrek.website 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
But it’s their character, you didn’t ask permission to make the art out of a copyright, why should they pay you?
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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.
BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
They’re still taking something they didn’t make and selling it as though they did. I have every right to write and film a Batman movie, spend as much time I want making it professional, and then show it to people, as long as I don’t charge them for it. That doesn’t give Fox or whoever the right to take my movie and charge for it instead. Even if I did break the law by making people pay for it, the actual owners would only be entitled to that money, not to go make mroe money off of it themselves. It’s still my work even if it uses concepts invented by someone else.
There’s a reason every franchise under the sun has mountains of fanart and fanfic without the companies that own them trying to take control of it: it’s blatantly illegal.
Buttons@programming.dev 10 months ago
Their art, their copyright.
They don’t expect to be paid, but they do expect that their copyright not be violated.
They might expect pay in exchange for granting a license to use their copyright art.
Guntrigger@feddit.ch 10 months ago
Well yeah, if Marvel released their next movie and it was literally the fan art.
CTDummy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
I don’t see it playing out positive unfortunately.
Buttons@programming.dev 10 months ago
Can the lawyers on the receiving end of a DMCA takedown take the other party to court for a frivolous suit? I thought one of the problems was that there is no recourse for those on the receiving end of a bad DMCA takedown?
catloaf@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Right, EA would file a counter-notice. Then the modder would have to get lawyers involved and file an actual legal complaint, and EA would respond with their lawyers.
But once they file the counter-notice, you could just stop there. They could sue you for filing in bad faith, but I’ve never heard of that happening.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sounds like it, not a lawyer, but if you’re wasting peoples time and money, yeah there will most likely be a way for them to get back at you.
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 10 months ago
I’d fund that GoFundMe.