CD Project

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
The Image Mod is filled with copyrighted images...

I know.

The thing is, and perhaps someone with some legal skill could address this, if the material can be downloaded for free, why can it not be burned to a cd and given away for free? The only cost would be the cost of the cd, jewel case and shipping. No profit would be made. I guess it goes back to distribution of copy righted material, but like I said, downloading it from a web site is also considered distribution.

[Atrocities]

I guess another way of doing it would be to provide the cd free of charge for a contribution to the support of providers web page.

Say donate $10 us for the up keep of X web site, and in return, out of appreciation, you recieve the CD.

No profit at all is attributed to the CD therefore the distribution of the material, if freely available on the web, and if taken to court, would not hold up legally.

If it can be downloaded for free thus obtained for free, then the method of obtaining it, so long as it was free, cannot be successfully challenged.

If it were to go to court, and I sincerely doubt it, it would most likely be thrown out, or at most, ruled in favor of the defendant.

Again, if it can be obtained free of charge via a download, then obtaining it via a free CD is would essencially be the samething.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I suppose it wouldn't be too big a deal for someone to setup a torrent for Online distribution. (Is anyone else here a fan of legal uses for bittorrent?)

bittorrent?

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Atrocities:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
The Image Mod is filled with copyrighted images...

I know.

The thing is, and perhaps someone with some legal skill could address this, if the material can be downloaded for free, why can it not be burned to a cd and given away for free? The only cost would be the cost of the cd, jewel case and shipping. No profit would be made. I guess it goes back to distribution of copy righted material, but like I said, downloading it from a web site is also considered distribution.

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The material can not be downloaded for free from the owner of the copyrights, as it was taken out of game installs... most of it, anyways...

[Atrocities]

Ask Fyron about it. Do not discuss it on the forum.

[Atrocities]

In that case Fyron I guess that material would have to be excluded or offered at a risk.

[Phoenix-D]

Its offered at a risk right now. Just a smaller one. All the copywritten images that you haven't gotten permission for are illegal to distribute in any form.