Ryuga,
Yes, the usage of works derived from GW IP is defined by their IP policy, available on their website. Please actually read it before making things up.
Thanks for mentioning it. Please read it yourself before accusing me not reading it.
http://games-workshop.com/can_cant_do.htm#cando. I agreed with you that the usage is defined by GW IP policy (please re-read my earlier post), but your claim of mod content belonging to you is contradictory to what GW IP policy dictates (No one but IP owners own derivative work) which is my original contention against your claim.
The idea that a derivative work is public domain is just silly and you're contradicting yourself. It's either public domain or copyrighted.
The fact that GW, TakeTwo and many other parties, own the copyright to some trademarks or graphics of the mod does not make it public domain under any of those parties legal documents, only limit its use and prevents from obtaining any copyrights that would infringe their IP.
I did not claim derivative work = public domain.
Many parts of the mod are separate works by various creators, including myself, and those creators hold all rights to those materials.
Any work created using GW IP (in this case, Silver helm units, great canon units, city names, leader heads, etc... pretty much most content in WF2.5, the rest is Firafax, i.e. game mechanics, usage of civ flavour) is not owned by modder. This is the key of copyright and trademark for creating work using other's IP unless IP owners specifically states they are granting the ownership to the derivative work.
Hey, no dictator is stopping you from creating your own Warhammer mod.
Concur, but it sounds like dictator when people want to create a different unit line (i.e.O&G, see earlier posts within this thread) and share it with others who have similar disposition, and the current caretakers of the mod come out
and states it is against their wishes even though they do not own the content (see above), and said people back off from creating different unit line. Granted, I respect the fact others respecting the wishes of the caretakers of the mod, but such situation stifles the creativity of the modding community, which is all about creating and sharing. And this is my original point.
I have made my original point, further discussion is likely to be moot for me. And I could definitely use more time on modding than discussing,
. Besides, I have obtained 30 posts for a custom avatar,
.