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by marak830 152 days ago
I agree, that do not(should not) have a leg to stand on here.

They might not like the fact, but the dev is selling his software, not theirs. It would be akin to MS sending a take down request to software running on windows.

I wonder how much "strength" the tos really has in this case.
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zvqcMMV6Zcr 152 days ago
The term "derivative work" covers a lot. For example all fan translations are one and all content stored on movie subtitles sites is by definition illegal. I don't know about those particular VR mods but in general case it is easy to show that game mod is not a standalone work and counts as derivative work, so game developer can limit the distribution however they want.
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marak830 151 days ago
I think it's more a dependency and less a derivative (there isn't any source code/game objects being distributed via the mod as far as I can tell.)

I would be very interested to see how a court would rule on this, as AFAIK such as Lexmark v. Static Control Components, you can modify products you purchase, but how much weight would the TOS really hold?

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