Legal Issues

01-10-2003, 09:18 AM

I have received a lot of PMs about modifing or editing some of the files of the DM MOD. Well, then:

Modding or Editing the files included in the pack of the DM MOD any of them is NOT allowed. You can't distribute edited files.

I released it open source in JASS form just that others can see how I made the DM MOD. But you can't distribute any of the files if you have messed with them.

I have plans to give some DM MOD Licenses (of course free) but this won't come for the moment at least in 2 months approximately.

So now, NO ONE is allowed to edit or modify the files of the DM MOD and of course, NOT ALLOWED to distribute them.

Thanks.

01-02-2006, 01:57 PM

Earth-Fury

isnt this not allowed, because the DMMOD maps belong to blizzard, and blizzard allows people to edit and re-distribute its property maps? (Thus allowing anyone to edit and redistribute any DMMOD map)

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5. Content Uploads to Battle.net. You may upload content to Battle.net in various forms, including, but not limited to, the selections you make for the Program, in chat rooms, and similar user-to-user areas (collectively, your "Content"). Your Content shall not: (a) infringe any third party intellectual property, other proprietary or publicity/privacy rights; (b) violate any law or regulation; (c) be defamatory, obscene, or pornographic; or (d) contain any viruses, Trojan horses, cancelbots, worms, time bombs, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept, or expropriate any system, data, or personal information. Blizzard reserves the right to any legal remedies available to Blizzard with respect to your Content, including, but not limited to, termination of your use of Battle.net if we believe your Content may create liability for Blizzard or may cause Blizzard to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers. You hereby grant to Blizzard a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise all intellectual property rights, in any media now known or not currently known, associated with your Content.

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6. Use of Your Content. Blizzard and/or its parent, subsidiaries or affiliates may gather, process, and use (and allow others to use) any and all information which you provide directly to Blizzard ("Content"), as well as information regarding the manner in which you use Battle.net. You hereby grant to Blizzard a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise all intellectual property rights, in any media now known or not currently known, associated with your Content.

(in simple terms: if you've played it on battle.net, blizzard has rigts to use, edit, destroy, reuse, ext, ext, ext. all of it. rights which you gave them freely by uploading the map thru battle.net)

i mean, all of this means nothing if the creators of all objects held within have not played the map(s) on battle.net. (but i doubt thats apllicable here)