Map Copyright (c)

[Vegas]

I have seen a couple of maps now where the author place a symbol relating to copyright. One of them being SM, which I will be further editing in the very near future, but want to keep out of troubler. I decided to ask Blizzard.

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Thank you for emailing the Blizzard technical support department in 
> regards to your question.  It is not possible for a person to copyright a 
> map as such, and you can label a map with any name.
>
> Please email me back if you require any further assistance or have any 
> further questions.

I asked further about any legar implications:

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Hi again,

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Adding (c) to something such as a map does not make it copyright to that person, and any maps created are actually owned by Blizzard Entertainment or its licensors according to the End user license agreement.  

Some people will add protection to their maps such as removing the triggers that the World Editor uses to load the map, making it harder to edit the map once it has been released, but this doesnt mean that they own the map.

[Bartimaeus]

I thought everyone knew that? Didn't Dekar E-Mail Blizzard a long time ago when people started threatening him about this? And they said the same thing?

[Vegas]

That was of course to do with "hacking". I dont think there was anything said about copyright. Now there is

[Bartimaeus]

Oh. Yeah, now I remember. We had a lot of mad map makers back then visiting...lol

(edit) Those were the fun days when I could flame map makers who were flaming people cheating maps, too...lol

[Dekar]

Have you ever red the end users license of WE?
It says that everything made with the help of it is blizzards property!
And yeah they answered me everything is fine...
And whoever asks me... even US lawyers... dunno... even if they'd threaten me...
I will never give them any IPs!
(And they have no chance getting a german server w/o starting the third world war ;D)
So you're pretty save here

greets Dekar

[Vegas]

Have you ever red the end users license of WE?
It says that everything made with the help of it is blizzards property!
And yeah they answered me everything is fine...
And whoever asks me... even US lawyers... dunno... even if they'd threaten me...
I will never give them any IPs!
(And they have no chance getting a german server w/o starting the third world war ;D)
So you're pretty save here

greets Dekar

Being in Bavaria, and sserpyc is also in Bavaria, I just dont feel like any legal action taken, and me ending up in a turkish prison over a map.

[Dekar]

AND he got your IP already