Expansion from Desatersoft

[Kongo-Otto]

Originally Posted by von Pilsner

I doubt it, they are just adding missions to the game and (probably) not licensing anything from MG.

I don't know whether they pay royalties or not, but some kind of business agreement concerning copyright and related rights must have been made, otherwise this Thread would have been locked very fast.

[von Pilsner]

Originally Posted by Kongo-Otto

I don't know whether they pay royalties or not, but some kind of business agreement concerning copyright and related rights must have been made, otherwise this Thread would have been locked very fast.

I don't follow your reasoning... If I create a font and offer it for sale for use in word processors I don't need their permission. Or if I use notepad to write a program, I own the code and not the folks who made the text editor.

Generally you own the output of a program you use (otherwise the C+ compiler & IDE people would own everything... ).

As long as they are only distributing the missions and skins and not MG code / Intellectual Property there would seem to be no obvious infringement.

[Kongo-Otto]

Originally Posted by von Pilsner

As long as they are only distributing the missions and skins and not MG code / Intellectual Property there would seem to be no obvious infringement.

What i ment was this:
if they use the FMB to create the Missions, they use the "Intellectual property" from 1c, so if there is a commercial FMB use from a third party without a permission from 1c, it would be an infringement. wouldn't it?

[JG52Uther]

Originally Posted by Kongo-Otto

What i ment was this:
if they use the FMB to create the Missions, they use the "Intellectual property" from 1c, so if there is a commercial FMB use from a third party without a permission from 1c, it would be an infringement. wouldn't it?

My thougths as well.No problem for user made missions, but making missions to sell surely infringes on CoDs Intellectual property, and therefore I would assume there is an agreement between D/soft and 1C, and royalties flowing 1C's way for every expansion sold.