DMCA'd Games and Usage

[Deathclaw99]

Hello.

As title states, there are a few card games which have been known to be under Copyright, which the holders actually defend.

Now to my question, what exactly are we no allowed to do with them, are we not allowed to both use them if we have one or are we only not allowed to upload them to the workshop?

[Marquise*]

Whatever we can or cannot do with the workshop. We get games that are featured as DLC down of-course! The rest for the time being is just like what you could do on your own kitchen table. We cannot make money out of it so, I guess folks are lenient or it could attract them to do the DLCs.

But true, everyone should do their best to stay in the fair use of their games.

[SaltyO]

It's a complicated subject. Some publishers are lenient and see mods as an opportunity, some are wary and watching, some zealously litigious and heavy with the DMCA hammer.

There are certain games that are known to be DMCAed routinely, other games where publishers are happy to see people playing. I can say more of the considerable amount of money I've spent on board games this year has been because I explored the "illegal" mod on TTS. Since the people who mod beautifully adapted copyrighted games are sometimes the same people hired to make DLC, the serpent starts to eat its own tail. I think overall mods here increase business, help with conversion of new gamers, and raise the threshold of expectation; which is just markety talk for "makes gamers want more, expect more, and probably buy more."

[xDARKHEARTx]

Alot of games i wanted to buy but was nervous about spending 60-100 dollars on... I have bought alot since i have been able to play them on TTS. I support these mods and agree that they are helping sell more copies... Ive bought betrayal, munchkin and 3 card packs, secret hitler and king of tokyo because of these mods... I almost bought camp grizzly but then the mod was DMCA'd and i never got to try it out so i bought sherrif of nottingham and thats when i bought munchkin cards...