Specter on 5/8/2007 at 01:44
Well, the name of this topic is "A Question of Legality". Wether Eidos cares or not is irrelevant, the action remains illegal. True, nothing may result from this particular act, but if actions like this continued without hindrance, then the consequences may come in the form of more restrictions placed on SDKs, if SDKs even get released at all.
Oceanstorm on 5/8/2007 at 04:04
The publishers do take notice sometimes.
I'm sure there was a mod for one of the Command and Conquer games that got squashed cause the publisher didn't like something about it(sorry can't remember the name).:tsktsk:
DJ Riff on 14/8/2007 at 14:02
The question is, who is the owner of that particular sounds that some taffer used in his mod. If he used voice sounds — yes, of course it is illegal. But as for the others, that are in SFX folder — a lot of them were taken from public sound libraries and some were bundled with sound editing software. I heard them in some movies before TDP appeared (door shutting, crates crashing, wind, zombie's corpse splashing sound etc).
sparhawk on 14/8/2007 at 16:48
Quote Posted by marshall banana
Over at 'Planet Elder Scrolls', a site that has many mods for the Elder Scrolls games, there are some files put up by someone named 'Walthar'. The mods that Walthar has are sound replacements, most of which include sounds from Thief. But nowhere does Walthar state that the sounds belong to Eidos. Is this legal?
How do you know that they belong to LGS in the first place? After all, LGS could have acquired them also from a third party. Unless you know where these sounds are exactly from, the question wether it is legal or not can not really be answered.
Besides, I find such copyright threads always quite amusing. All kind of people here claim that this or that is legal while this or that action is illegal. Bullshit. If you want to have an exact answer, then you must specify which country you are refering to. Laws are different over the countries, and if you have a question for the legality of action, an answer only makes sense if given for a specific country. And then it doesn't even come into play the problem where the poster is from, and where he is posting to. This guy has posted some soundfiles? Where did he post it to? Where is the server that he had to transfer it to? if they are both on different countries, then the question is even more difficult to answer, because for one or both parties involved it may or may not legal to do so.
