Just for your information - the moderating staff here (including the Admin) are also unpaid, so "corporate rule" as an excuse for pointing out the legalities and rules goes out the window there. This is a privately own site though - and there is no "free speech" on private ground - you respect the regulations of the site, or you leave. Can't be any more simple. And yes - you paid for a license to run the software - you don't "own" the product, read the EULA next time. Yeah I didn't think Nexus was actually a business, it's the fact that it *is* unpaid that makes the legal jargon so strange, but I guess it's a sign of the times these days. It's always depressing to have creative endeavors shot down by people saying that something's illegal; it makes you think "what's the point" of trying to do anything since pretty much everything has some copyright stamp on it at this point; technically porting a mod into Vegas that was made using Fallout 3 resources is a massive violation of copyright principles, it's not something Obsidian would waste their time sueing over, but I've noticed a couple of mods disappear because of it, and yet many others stay up there. Also, i know there are a few other fallout mod communities out there (not really my thing though, they seem to revolve around loli and comically big tits) which have no problem with using copyright content... what's the problem with nexus doing it? Obsidian or whoever Chris Avellone sold Fallout to doesn't seem to be filing multi million dollar lawsuits to sue these other forums, have they threatened nexus in the past? Just curious as to the reasons behind it- because the copyright stuff is so unattractive to creative people... and it's supposed to be about modding. Personally I wouldn't take down user made content over these issues, if Obsidian gets in touch and complains, then sure take it down, but there's no reason to police everybody and do their job for them. Copyright (and stupid things like forcing games to be played through steam for example) is really annoying, and I just feel that if forums and big sites like nexus just roll over then it doesn't encourage the game makers to change policy in the future. If you polled people right here, right now, and asked them whether they enjoyed being *forced* to have to run steam every time, do you think they'd say yes? In the past mod communities would get together and try and find a way to work around it- and that's why they were so cool.. that's why they existed in the first place, but it seems unlikely to happen here. I'm not complaining about the individuals involved here, just about the trend in the general. Just had to add that in case you took any of that the wrong way ;) Using assets between Bethesda games is illegal, and if a mod is found doing that here then it'll be removed. Same with any content ported from other games. You're ripping resources from games and re-packaging them. Bethesda give you the licence to utilise their resources (on a per-game basis), but nothing more, so it's not just "technically a violation", it is a violation of copyright rules. Bethesda have been kind enough to still provide full modding support for their games (unlike other developers/publishers), all they ask for in return are a few rules. The Nexus is good in that it obeys these rules. And yes, Bethesda have contacted the Nexus staff before about requesting mods to be removed that don't follow these rules.