The creator of the Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod CD Projekt recently hit with a DMCA strike has paused his Patreon page and pulled access to all his mods after receiving another strike from a different publisher.
Looks like the Ghostrunner developers also have an issue with paid mods running off their IP.
Yes, but such a license agreement is fully inside the limits of the law, not beyond it. There is no violation, only a addition inside of the rules and limits of the law.
we were talking about laws that exist in Germany and perhaps somewhere else too. Are you commenting on the German law specifically and familiar enough with it to say it can be superseded by a contract?
It is not superseding anything, why would it? It is not doing anything that is not clearly defined in the law.
It is just bundling to types of contracts together.
I fear we have some kind of missunderstanding somewhere and I am not sure how to resolve that.
Again because a law can either be unnegotiable or something that can be superseded by a contract. Anyway, I was just wondering what type it is in this particular case. What you seem to be saying is that it can in fact be superseded if it is possible to enter into a contract where you agree to waive those rights.
Not really, or not always at least.
Not every law system allows to sell your copyrights. In germany for example it is only possible to license your copyrights but not to fully transfer them.
Copyrights are therefor not part of the transfer of ownership, you have to add a license agreement additionally.
I’m surprised and also not really.
It’s exactly the same line of thinking where someone else is given more rights over a thing than the person who owns it.
If you want to fully own it then put a exclusive and unlimited license agreement into the contract with your architect.
If there is a law that puts limits on what you can agree to in a contract then you don’t get around it by making a contract that violates the law.
Yes, but such a license agreement is fully inside the limits of the law, not beyond it. There is no violation, only a addition inside of the rules and limits of the law.
we were talking about laws that exist in Germany and perhaps somewhere else too. Are you commenting on the German law specifically and familiar enough with it to say it can be superseded by a contract?
It is not superseding anything, why would it? It is not doing anything that is not clearly defined in the law. It is just bundling to types of contracts together.
I fear we have some kind of missunderstanding somewhere and I am not sure how to resolve that.
Again because a law can either be unnegotiable or something that can be superseded by a contract. Anyway, I was just wondering what type it is in this particular case. What you seem to be saying is that it can in fact be superseded if it is possible to enter into a contract where you agree to waive those rights.
It is the superseding that I don’t find correct, but maybe it is just a nuance of the word that i am missing.
But I would say, in some degree, yes.
That’s what ‘own’ means.
Not really, or not always at least. Not every law system allows to sell your copyrights. In germany for example it is only possible to license your copyrights but not to fully transfer them. Copyrights are therefor not part of the transfer of ownership, you have to add a license agreement additionally.
Yeah, I know there’s some nuance and was being a bit facetious. :)