I remember hearing somewhere if you use a copyrighted material such as music, video, etc for 30 seconds you aren't required to pay for the usage or something. Is this true? Say I want to throw in 30 seconds of music. Would blizzard allow that? This is just something I heard, so tell me if I should be telling the person who told me this he is an idiot or be thanking him.
There's some grey area of 'fair use' where that 30 second concept comes from but yah its still Blizzard's call and indeed the consensus so far is they'd just rather avoid the whole thing and pull any maps that could potentially bring any such actions to their door.
I remember hearing somewhere if you use a copyrighted material such as music, video, etc for 30 seconds you aren't required to pay for the usage or something. Is this true? Say I want to throw in 30 seconds of music. Would blizzard allow that? This is just something I heard, so tell me if I should be telling the person who told me this he is an idiot or be thanking him.
no, blizzard has been removing maps that have any type of copyrighted material in it =/
There's some grey area of 'fair use' where that 30 second concept comes from but yah its still Blizzard's call and indeed the consensus so far is they'd just rather avoid the whole thing and pull any maps that could potentially bring any such actions to their door.
@Molsterr: Go
they don't not just go and remove it. Typically there's ppl that report the map. Then they take a look and decide whether or not they will take action
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they don't not just go and remove it. Typically there's ppl that report the map. Then they take a look and decide whether or not they will take action
No, if they see it, its removed =) They wont allow any kind of copyrighted music.