[Wahnsinniger]

Alright, I'm not going to complain about your point, because Shrapnel and Illwinter do have to cover their rear's legally.

As far as copyright goes, copyright laws (and patent laws for that matter) exist to encourage creativity by ensuring that the creators will get some sort of financial reward. So if I were to make a Lord of the Rings game and started selling it, thats infrigement because that could be taking away sales from official games. The same can be said if you got a Copy-Machine and started makes Copies of "The Fellowship of the Ring" and selling them to friends. But creating a mod for a game such as this will NOT impact the copyright holder financially at all, and furthermore in this case the law is actually stifling creativity, which contradicts its purpose, and thus is one of the tragedies of copyright law. (piracy is a seperate issue)

However, since I won't be making any such mod anyway, it doesn't affect me. (And when I make board or video games, I have no need to use existing intellectual property anyway)