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Originally Posted by SaQSoN
Therefore, fact 3: 1C paid 6-digit sum to NG as a license fees and signed contract with NG and Ubi, which prohibits use of any images of NG products in the IL-2 series, without permission and license from NG, no matter if this images are included in free or paid add-ons.
Fact 4: a part of agreement between DT and 1C is a prohibition to use any images of NG products in DT creations, related to the IL-2 series.
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NG's position was always very dubious in law, even in US law, but the above two facts seem to over rule normal copyright limitations, unless it is argued that the agreement (fact 3) was made under duress.
A significant legal point against NG's position is that copyright was originally only for a duration of 28 years (say 1973 for WWII stuff). Current law extends the period but does not apply to things which had already gone into the public domain.
Copyright law should not have applied to warships, which were designed by the Navy Board, not NG's predecessor companies, but under fact three NG seeks to define ships built by their companies as their "products". They were not. The navy board could instruct any yard to build them without paying any royalties to NG companies.