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On the Subject of Modding
3 years ago
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Subs take it up the butt
Something came up in my Second Life Pokemon Discord group that has been eating at my brain for a good while. A member made a Lucario mod to sell and a lot of people got excited. One person who bought the mod showed it off, except their Lucario was recolored to be green, which was to match their sona . The mod creator grew upset over it because the person "stole and modified their work without permission" and left the group in disgust as well as taking their mods away. It took the owner some convincing to get the modder to come back as well as the "thief" apologizing for modifying the mod and promising to take it down.
I have a problem with that.
You see, when it comes to Second Life, mods exist and there's nothing stopping people from taking the mod and modifying it. As long as the person isn't reuploading that mod for people to take or selling it, I think it's fair game. Unlike actual art where you can't upload someone else's work as well as heavily editing their work and claiming it's yours, texture mods aren't quite as clear cut. I usually use whatever textures I bought and lightly edit them so they fit properly on the bodies I use on Second Life for my personal use. Not claiming it's mine, not selling it for personal gain, nada. It's just like using mods in a video game that changes a character's textures or models. When you let people mod your stuff, it can attract more people to your work. When you don't (or worse, are heavily against it), people won't take it lightly. For an example, Back 4 Blood was announced not to have mod support, which cause interest in the game to greatly dwindle cause now people can't make crazy mods or mods that can fine tune the game to their liking. In short, don't attack people for making mods off of your work. Back to the subject at hand...
For the Pokemon mod fiasco I mentioned earlier, the modder is claiming that modifying their texture mod is a copyright violation and are against the TOS of Second Life. Ok, that is fair, but there's one issue no one seems to have noticed or are too afraid to point out; Using the Pokemon IP to create and SELL mods based off said IP is also a copyright violation.
X fucking D!
I see Pokemon mods on the Second Life Marketplace all the damn time! Everyone KNOWS they're violating the copyright to the Pokemon IP. Most people are smart enough to keep their mouths shut about it and some don't even label their mods as Pokemon to get past the auto purge. Why? Because furries are thirsty AF for Pokemon shit on Second Life and everyone is willing to look the other way. There used to be a ton more Pokemon mods on the marketplace, but all it took was a few people reporting to Nintendo / Game Freak (or them finding out directly) and the majority of those mods are gone. Some reuploaded the mods under different names and others didn't bother bringing their mods back at all in fear of losing their accounts. So don't fucking tell me that modding someone's Pokemon mod texture is a "copyright violation" when you yourself are violating copyrights by uploading and selling mods off a company's work, you fucking tosser.
I have a problem with that.
You see, when it comes to Second Life, mods exist and there's nothing stopping people from taking the mod and modifying it. As long as the person isn't reuploading that mod for people to take or selling it, I think it's fair game. Unlike actual art where you can't upload someone else's work as well as heavily editing their work and claiming it's yours, texture mods aren't quite as clear cut. I usually use whatever textures I bought and lightly edit them so they fit properly on the bodies I use on Second Life for my personal use. Not claiming it's mine, not selling it for personal gain, nada. It's just like using mods in a video game that changes a character's textures or models. When you let people mod your stuff, it can attract more people to your work. When you don't (or worse, are heavily against it), people won't take it lightly. For an example, Back 4 Blood was announced not to have mod support, which cause interest in the game to greatly dwindle cause now people can't make crazy mods or mods that can fine tune the game to their liking. In short, don't attack people for making mods off of your work. Back to the subject at hand...
For the Pokemon mod fiasco I mentioned earlier, the modder is claiming that modifying their texture mod is a copyright violation and are against the TOS of Second Life. Ok, that is fair, but there's one issue no one seems to have noticed or are too afraid to point out; Using the Pokemon IP to create and SELL mods based off said IP is also a copyright violation.
X fucking D!
I see Pokemon mods on the Second Life Marketplace all the damn time! Everyone KNOWS they're violating the copyright to the Pokemon IP. Most people are smart enough to keep their mouths shut about it and some don't even label their mods as Pokemon to get past the auto purge. Why? Because furries are thirsty AF for Pokemon shit on Second Life and everyone is willing to look the other way. There used to be a ton more Pokemon mods on the marketplace, but all it took was a few people reporting to Nintendo / Game Freak (or them finding out directly) and the majority of those mods are gone. Some reuploaded the mods under different names and others didn't bother bringing their mods back at all in fear of losing their accounts. So don't fucking tell me that modding someone's Pokemon mod texture is a "copyright violation" when you yourself are violating copyrights by uploading and selling mods off a company's work, you fucking tosser.
I think artists/modders like this are hypocritical idiots. As you rightly pointed out, they are trying to prevent someone from altering something they didn't make when the seller is making a profit from something they legally don't have the right to. This is my issue with fan artists in general, honestly, getting all worked up about someone else using their own art when they're building their entire fanbase off of the works of others. It's why I copyleft everything I make; if you wanna use my stuff, fine, but I'll take away your right to prevent others from doing the same. Fair's fair, bitches.