Plop,
I would like to find some documentation as per my rights and their limits as a Bannerlord modder or, in general, a community member who generates content (videos, texts, code, assets, etc...). For example, who owns the material I produce? Do I forfeit any rights by publishing my mod on the forums? What can the company do with my material? Is there any limit on what I can do? Under which jurisdiction are the forums? And so on.
Please do not answer any of the questions above individually, I'm really just looking for the legalese I probably agreed to when buying the games / registering on the forums.
This could be done via the "Contact us" form, but seeing as most likely everyone reading this text is subject to the agreement one way or the other it seemed fit to ask here.
I have found the Terms and rules of the forum but I don't know how it applies here.
Thanks,
Kyll
I used to be a heavy Minecraft player and a very engaged Stack Overflow user. Both of these products have seen their owning company do some questionable things in the past, such as changing the ownership of community projects or generally mishandling their community and abusing their rights.
For example, Mojang re-used part of a development toolkit without prior approval from the developers who created the kit. This created a fairly public catastrophe, which essentially rendered the kit unusable until it could be released without any of the infringing code. In a way this story could have been that of Viking's Conquest: Taleworlds just taking any code it wants without telling the devs and releasing the extension to everyone's surprise. It's not what happened (I think, no idea how Viking Conquest happened actually) but Mojang showed that it is a plausible scenario.
One day, the company behind StackOverflow fired a community moderator for no apparent reason. Despite literal months of community outreach (and outcry), nothing from the company's management but cold legalese silence and public smearing of the fired mod. Before this, the company unilaterally decided to change the license behind all of the content produced on StackOverflow, without consulting the community and seemingly passing a mistake as an actual change. This later issue has since been solved in a very satisfying way, yet it comes to show that mishandling of community's property can and does happen.
I spent thousands of hours on Warband and I'm loving Bannerlord so far. I am extremely eager to sink my teeth into its core, but I want to know what I am getting into.
For example, Mojang re-used part of a development toolkit without prior approval from the developers who created the kit. This created a fairly public catastrophe, which essentially rendered the kit unusable until it could be released without any of the infringing code. In a way this story could have been that of Viking's Conquest: Taleworlds just taking any code it wants without telling the devs and releasing the extension to everyone's surprise. It's not what happened (I think, no idea how Viking Conquest happened actually) but Mojang showed that it is a plausible scenario.
One day, the company behind StackOverflow fired a community moderator for no apparent reason. Despite literal months of community outreach (and outcry), nothing from the company's management but cold legalese silence and public smearing of the fired mod. Before this, the company unilaterally decided to change the license behind all of the content produced on StackOverflow, without consulting the community and seemingly passing a mistake as an actual change. This later issue has since been solved in a very satisfying way, yet it comes to show that mishandling of community's property can and does happen.
I spent thousands of hours on Warband and I'm loving Bannerlord so far. I am extremely eager to sink my teeth into its core, but I want to know what I am getting into.
I would like to find some documentation as per my rights and their limits as a Bannerlord modder or, in general, a community member who generates content (videos, texts, code, assets, etc...). For example, who owns the material I produce? Do I forfeit any rights by publishing my mod on the forums? What can the company do with my material? Is there any limit on what I can do? Under which jurisdiction are the forums? And so on.
Please do not answer any of the questions above individually, I'm really just looking for the legalese I probably agreed to when buying the games / registering on the forums.
This could be done via the "Contact us" form, but seeing as most likely everyone reading this text is subject to the agreement one way or the other it seemed fit to ask here.
I have found the Terms and rules of the forum but I don't know how it applies here.
Thanks,
Kyll