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New Skyrim mod feature pulling the mod community apart (www.polygon.com)
submitted 11 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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Will it work this time? We’ll see

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Bethesda introducing an official way to sell mods solved the legal problem of using the game's assets.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The modding community is the reason Bethesda has been able to get away with selling the same game for over a decade.

There are a million ways to solve the "legal problem", such as "don't initiate legal action against moddders".

This wasn't a problem that needed a solution.

[–] DaCookeyMonsta@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's a different legal problem as there are situations where if you don't protect your trademark you can lose it. But I'm not a lawyer and don't know if that situation would apply to mods.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Even in that case, it's easy enough to solve: grant permission explicitly under the condition that the assets remain in the context of the game (eg, don't export them to other games).

Consider other games that explicitly provide a blanket grant for people permission to use their game footage in videos (Team17).

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Solving a problem that doesn't actually exist.

I fucking hate civil lawyers and MBA bros.

[–] 7112@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Just edited to comment for clarity on that. Thanks.