'In the end, what it comes down to is distribution, and potential commercial impact. They have explicitly given permission for modders to do so, therefore, theft does not enter into that scenario. Mods to Bethesda games are encouraged and promoted by the owners of its intellectual property, which is Bethesda. If you rip them from a game, however, you cannot legally (although the odds of you getting nailed for it are minimal, and usually will at most constitute a ban from the mod site you uploaded to) distribute those assets, as they are not yours. You can make the models and textures yourself and be free to distribute them wherever, so long as you don't take payment for the use of those assets. In the end, what it comes down to is distribution, and potential commercial impact. Writing a program, on the other hand, that converts the files located on the users drive for use in another game, is perfectly fine, as I'm not distributing the protected files. I'm fully within rights to rip resources directly from dragon's dogma and place them in skyrim, for example, for personal use, so long as I am not giving copys of the resources out by uploading the meshes and textures required. Same way you are perfectly fine to have, say, winnie the pooh wallpaper at home, but doing so at a daycare facility is a legal gray area that you can get nailed for. It's why you can't be nailed for gifting a painting of a scene from a disney movie, yet you can be nailed for selling it. However, when it is sold as part of a game, as was the case with the beserk sets in DD on console, there does need to be a licencing agreement, due to the commercial usage.Ĭopyright law is in place to protect from commercial theft, not from personal use. Unless the company were to take out specific copyrights on individual character designs and weapons, they have no ground to stand on. Just look at the absolutely ridiculous numbers of mods for, say, Left 4 Dead, or Skyrim (which is more relevant considering it's usually armors and weapons) that add anime characters and other things from licensed media into the games. Except that if that property is used without intent to make money and using homemade textures and models, there is no IP issue.

Taking someone else's stuff without consent and giving it away is still theft, no matter how well-intentioned the act may be.

Creating mods to sub in the original title song and/or the Japanese vocal tracts are exactly that, theft of the performers' intellectual property.

Making money off of it doesn't discount the fact that it's still theft of the Berserk creator's intellectual property. Originally posted by Karathrax:No, I'm afraid.

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