Is the Nexus considered professional distribution?

[nightrifle1015]

Hi!

 

I'm creating a mod for fallout 4 that will be incorporating Warhammer 40k assets and I'm trying to stay within Game Workshop's IP policy.

 

The only thing that has me worried is this line:

 

• No professional distribution. Please do not professionally distribute (whether free of charge or for payment) anything you have produced which contains our IP.

Would the Nexus be considered free of charge professional distribution?

Thanks!

[Dark0ne]

I have absolutely no idea.

[MotoSxorpio]

First time for everything, Robin. ;) :laugh:

[ZeroKing]

Given that the Intellectual Property Policy clearly states this:

 

 

Imitations

Producing copies of Games Workshop’s creations is an infringement of copyright; this includes copying a significant part of our creations. Making models which copy heavily from Games Workshop’s artwork, descriptions or products is therefore an infringement. Is it instantly recognisable as one of Games Workshop’s unique characters, creatures or vehicles? If so, it has likely copied a significant part and is therefore an infringement. Just because we haven’t gotten around to making the model yet doesn’t mean you can.

 

The answer is: You can't release your mod that uses Warhammer 40K on Nexus.

[nightrifle1015]

My goodness! A response from The Dark One himself!

 

My guess is they made that statement vague so they'd have a better basis for their infringement cases. It's had my mind twisting in circles for a while now. I'm inclined to think they were meaning more like a physical distributor such as ebay, but the nexus would certainly be the closest thing to a professional mod distributor. Games Workshop has been known to be viciously defensive of their IP, but they have yet to remove several 40k related mods off the nexus. :ermm:

 

edit: ZeroKing, Games Workshop is a tabletop mogul. They are referring to physical models as they make money off of selling their physical tabletop models for their respective games. Creating 3rd party models for tabletop is a pretty big issue which has effected the industry.

Edited February 4, 2016 by nightrifle1015

[ZeroKing]

If Nexus has Games Workshop assets in these mods you speak of, you should report them. By the IP Policy of Games Workshop, they're not allowed to be released here.

[nightrifle1015]

Did you read my edit? A tabletop model and a 3D model are completely different things. If you reread the last sentence of the paragraph you quoted you'd notice they're clearly talking about tabletop models. This is off topic and unhelpful.

Edited February 4, 2016 by nightrifle1015

[JimboUK]

Ask them.

[cordelionreaver]

Hard to tell. If the Emperor Had a Text-To-Speech Device is a popular Youtube series that uses images form 40k sources, and I don't think they had any problems. But I know some Warhammer 40k videos have been taken down from Youtube, like the Space Hulk flash animation.