• bluespin@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Mods are free and community-driven. This situation is closer to someone using the chorus to a song in their own soundcloud track, which in my opinion should be completely fine

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        9 months ago

        I’m not familiar with soundcloud’s TOS, which is why I noted that it’s my opinion. When did people decide it’s alright for multi-billion dollar corporations to dictate what people create for fun?

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          9 months ago

          It has nothing to do with anyone’s TOS.

          People decided that when they passed copyright laws and signed international treaties about it.

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      9 months ago

      IIRC, the mod wasn’t free. They were making money off of it using Patreon.

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      9 months ago

      Ignoring that this mod wasn’t free, that’s absolutely not in the neighborhood of legal.

      Nintendo is fully within their legal rights to send a DMCA takedown to every single fan drawing of Pikachu on the planet if they so desire. It belongs to them.