CSI wrote:
This is not stealing, because the authors still have the copyright of their original content.
I will now explain how the content rights work on FAF to you in an attempt to stop the 4 or 5 different people per day who do not have a clue about intellectual property.
When you upload a Map or Mod to the FAF vault, it is distributed to FAF under a private agreement. Not copyright, or any other arbitrary license. Argue about whatever you want to call this agreement later.
In short, under this agreement:
FAF obviously retains the right to distribute your content, alongside hiding or removing it at any time or for any reason.
YOU currently hold the right to hide the content, unrate the content, and upload modified files as a "version" that may replace said content.
Now, say I take your map, rename it, and reupload it. It honestly doesn't matter for shit that I put your username in the description or whatever: you no longer have the aforementioned rights to your content, and I do.
FAF holds the power to obtain the same rights as the author for the purposes of maintenance after a time period, that the author consented to before uploading. No author consented to having the rights of the work(s) given to other people at any time during the process. (currently)
Please read that again and understand it before you say something about copyright or whatever comes next.
Now, regarding your "modpack"
The "rules" are in place to prevent exactly this kind of work, the copy pasting of the works of other authors and thus obtaining the rights to them when you upload it. Besides the obvious vault clutter, this has caused multiple issues in the past wherein an author came back to faf to find his content stolen multiple times, and threatened to revoke FAF's permissions to his work unless the agreement was upheld.
You can do one of three things about this:
Obtain the explicit permissions of the authors of that which content you're using, in a way so that FAF can waive liability if an author deems your use of his content outside of the agreement.
Don't actually reupload the content to the vault, thus not entering the agreement and still being able to use the modpack in a custom game by yourself or anyone you distribute it to.
Help negotiate the "threshold of originality" that by which content is no longer deemed the work of another author. It needs to be decided upon eventually, but I doubt modpacks will get the all clear anyway.
If you clearly state you don't have the time nor the interest to pursue making mods in the first place, I don't see how the rules discourage that further, all they're discouraging you from doing is (as harsh as it sounds:) theft, which is what it is supposed to do.Statistics: Posted by biass — 28 Dec 2019, 05:49
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