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Genesis Rhapsodos:
--- Quote from: Vgr on 2011-10-09 01:14:39 ---This is illegal. Final Period.
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Talking about something and how its done isn't illegal, even linking to places who have it wouldn't be illegal. The owners of a forum aren't responsible for restricting the free flow of information, if the files were hosted on this forum then Square Enix could request the files be taken down. Although since this is just a forum that doesn't host files as far as I know, they can't even do that. I doubt Square Enix is going to start suing their fans who add more replay value to their games, at the most if they decide to anything it would be to request whoever is hosting the file to take it down. If somebody owns a game, they can modify it as they wish, as that is fair use. Only when distributing it does it enter the grey area where they if they want to go after their fans for promoting their games, they can. Although if they wanted to shut down a project for copyright violation, they can do this regardless of whether people are using their models.
Also considering the haven't went after the people who made Avalance, I don't think they are as anal about people making fan games and mods as your post suggests. Also for it to be illegal, I think they would need to show that the usage causes them to lose profits or for the person to be making money off their work.
LeonhartGR:
--- Quote from: Genesis Rhapsodos on 2012-03-22 19:23:02 ---Talking about something and how its done isn't illegal, even linking to places who have it wouldn't be illegal. The owners of a forum aren't responsible for restricting the free flow of information, if the files were hosted on this forum then Square Enix could request the files be taken down. Although since this is just a forum that doesn't host files as far as I know, they can't even do that. I doubt Square Enix is going to start suing their fans who add more replay value to their games, at the most if they decide to anything it would be to request whoever is hosting the file to take it down. If somebody owns a game, they can modify it as they wish, as that is fair use. Only when distributing it does it enter the grey area where they if they want to go after their fans for promoting their games, they can. Although if they wanted to shut down a project for copyright violation, they can do this regardless of whether people are using their models.
Also considering the haven't went after the people who made Avalance, I don't think they are as anal about people making fan games and mods as your post suggests. Also for it to be illegal, I think they would need to show that the usage causes them to lose profits or for the person to be making money off their work.
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I think who the law protects is the designers too either the forum moders seize to deal with those models from respect to the original designers. I think what law protects is the rip from an original image to "steal" someone else's work, while at the same time I oppose to any copyright infringement that prevents the evolution of moding.
Recko:
If you actually wanted to be exact on laws then any of the models on this site that even refer to the original characters of FF7 even there names is copyright infringment as SquareEnix never released a SDK for the game.
Even if you modeled a character from scratch completely, its still illegal.
(all this from a Top Lawyer i know)
The only way for anybody on this site to release a model of a character is to get direct permission from SquareEnix and that will never officially happen as they have already said that FF7 will be left alone. No re-release, No-remake they want to keep the game as the classic it was, Final!
I looked into this as there were debuts on the model of Tifa i was doing that i copied from reference pictures from another game.
Hence why i am now not doing any more models of any kind from now on (unless for personnal use).
I suggest any models that have been released on this site have all download links removed except those that are not of character models.
EQ2Alyza:
--- Quote from: Recko on 2012-07-10 01:23:22 ---If you actually wanted to be exact on laws then any of the models on this site that even refer to the original characters of FF7 even there names is copyright infringment as SquareEnix never released a SDK for the game.
Even if you modeled a character from scratch completely, its still illegal.
(all this from a Top Lawyer i know)
The only way for anybody on this site to release a model of a character is to get direct permission from SquareEnix and that will never officially happen as they have already said that FF7 will be left alone. No re-release, No-remake they want to keep the game as the classic it was, Final!
I looked into this as there were debuts on the model of Tifa i was doing that i copied from reference pictures from another game.
Hence why i am now not doing any more models of any kind from now on (unless for personnal use).
I suggest any models that have been released on this site have all download links removed except those that are not of character models.
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Tenko Kuugen:
don't reply to that guy
he's full of crap
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