A baseball-inspired mod created for Fallout 4 has garnered the ill-will of the highly volatile MLB, who have condemned the mod and implied that they will “enforce their rights” as a result, a not untypical turn of events for such an organization confronting the evils of random modders online.
The mod changed the main player model to that of Red Sox athlete David Ortiz, while also altering the appearance of numerous NPCs and enemies to uniforms and gear respectively, which has apparently proven heinous enough to warrant removal.
The mod in action, which has since been made unavailable to download lest it render any millionaire baseball players or billionaire team owners destitute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq3EKv-HNR8
Haha they’re never gonna win this case, it’s fan art, and provided for free. You can only enforce copyright on things that are being monetized; at least when it comes to artistic things; which this is.
home run! no big papi?
They probably wouldn’t be anywhere near as upset if the mainstream media didn’t keep painting gaming as toxic women-raping terrorism.
I’m all for hating rich people but with the way American copyright law works if they don’t sue these guys, IE defend their copyright, they’re considered to have given up their right to it and anyone can use it (and re-copyright it themselves too).
quite simple. It’s fan art. It’s not for sale. It’s free. Sueing over it is the same as sueing someone who draws a picture of some baseball hunk and posts it on the internet. If monotization comes in then they should have every right to sue.
You’re wrong. You’re mistaking Trademark law (the need to defend it) for Copyright law. And the part about “re-copyright” is pure fantasy.
Absolutely nothing causes someone to lose a Copyright short of reaching the actual Copyright duration, or a Court Order (typically for bankruptcy). They can defend their copyright as capriciously as they see fit – only going after the people who they think can give them a net positive return, typically.
Something really needs to be done about copyright law – in today’s day and age, it seems to do as harm as much as it does good. :/
It has always done more harm than good, and been circumvented by the same shitbags that came up with it.
what you just said makes absolutely no sense. I just lost 5 iq points reading it.
I quite enjoyed that video and song. Yay