Stealing Fallout 4 Mods is Still Stealing

It’s great that you can now download Fallout 4 mods for the Xbox One version. Leave it to a few jerks that don’t understand the concept of theft to sully the entire thing.

[Pledius]

ask for permission to original content creator or let the original content creator know how much you would love to see their mods in the console

just don't steal their content and give an excuse as something like making political statement, doing what Robin Hood has done. It's just simply called stealing even if you glorifie it

[jessionpc]

You talkin about Fallout bro?

..Or somIN else...

Fit me bre

Fit me in the pool

[Geekman]

Yo, word up my nigga. Shit is LIT.

[Eidolon]

Snob, prick, or otherwise.. the creators put time,work, and creativity into their mods and uploading their digital intellectual property, regardless if it's free or not, without permission is equivalent to piracy and is just a ****y thing to do, epsecially claiming it as your own or not even mentioning the creator.

[JEECE]

Is it "their digital intellectual property" though, or is it Bethesda's?

[Eidolon]

Most artists, designers, or writers wouldn't have IP if you consider this. Digital artists using software from Adobe or painters using some brand of paint and canvas wouldn't own their art, then. Owning your creation, it being yours and no one elses is also an incentive for creating, if someone can just take it and call it their own without anyone batting an eye, we wouldn't have much in this world.

[JEECE]

@Eidolon
Not the same. Using equipment or tools made/owned by a certain company (i.e. the company that made the paintbrush or canvas) does not give that company rights to your work. If Woody Allen builds a camera, and I use that camera to make a film, I would have the copyright to that film. Unless, of course, that film is an unauthorized sequel to his film Annie Hall, in which case it would be a derivative work, and he could claim the copyright. My question is based on the idea that mods to Fallout 4 are most likely to be considered derivative works based on Fallout 4 itself (which is a creative work, not a tool), so by definition Bethesda would own the copyrights to these mods.

[Eidolon]

You're right, I guess it doesn't qualify for a patent so it's not an IP. But it is still their creative work.. so uploading someone elses work as your own is frowned upon and even Bethesda says for them to file a complaint with DMCA.

[Valenka]

Well-written article and 100% spot-on.

[Goldby]

We should find out all we can about thr person who stole it. Make a mod of them constantly stealing in the game befote getting caught and shove a mini nuke down his throught for "politcal reasons"

[JEECE]

This article assumes that mods are the intellectual property of the creator, but what is the support for that? Creators of works have ownership over derivative works. If I write a story about Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Leia Organa, it is irrelevant how original the story is or how much work I put in; Disney could claim the copyright, because my story is a derivative work. Mods are pretty clearly derivative of the game they are based on, so technically Fallout 4 mods should be Bethesda's intellectual property, not the intellectual property of the creators. In that case, uploading these mods so they'll work on Xbox One would not be stealing from the creators.

I'd love to hear from anyone who can refute this (not being rhetorical here, I legitimately find this interesting, and if someone really knows about copyright law with regard to mods, chime in).