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Old December 14th, 2010, 09:07 PM
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Default Re: Should banned user mods/maps/etc be deleted from these boards?

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Originally Posted by Muse View Post
One cannot be granted Derivative Work copyright protection without the permission of the original copyright holder.
You cannot gain personally from a crime.
Copyright infringement is only a crime when it is done on a commercial scale. If it isn't it can be brought to the courts as civil suit.

Large scale copyright infringement is covered by a the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. TRIPS. Which was signed by most of the WTO countries. This agreement forces countries to make large scape copyright infringement criminal.

In this case it is neither large scale, nor commercial.
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