I was once trying to make a middle-earth mod... but no one could do the landscaping and texturing for it, so I was wondering if it ouwld be legal to take things like the land and weapons from the mod, and make your own with them, and distribute it for free (with all the proper credits for the FABULOUS mod team here!)
Who has the rights? The copyrightings of this mod
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Posted 04 March 2004 - 01:40 AM
It will not be legal to redistribute the MEMod content as your own.
Given proper credits and retaining filenames, if you REQUEST authorization to use MEMod's content, we will give permission (in some cases) to release your mod using our content... but ONLY if certain requirements are kept.
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Given proper credits and retaining filenames, if you REQUEST authorization to use MEMod's content, we will give permission (in some cases) to release your mod using our content... but ONLY if certain requirements are kept.
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 06:39 AM
*sigh* ... will the people ever get over the fact that the movies are ARTISTICALLY LICENSED!!!!!!!! Stop complaining, jeez, the elves and haldir's death were there to serve a purpose and unfortunately you don't realize the precious little "system" in hollywood. Here is what happens, okay everybody ... A: The screenwriters or a group writes the script (oh hooray lets just take the book its that easy) ... well no ... lets see for the clearly thick skull audience that has obviously never read the books (be serious not everybody is a die hard fan) don't know or quite grasp that wonderful BACKSTORY - omg I feel like Lucas ... because of that we the movie watchers need to be reminded it or introduced to it in some fashion, and to character concepts that in the visual and audio world of film does not quite translate from written literature where we can clearly define what is going on. Thus, we now have to show ... not tell ... the love between Arwen and Aragorn, the trials of Aragorn and the sacrafice of Arwen, the degredation of Frodo, the coniving of Gollum, the loyalty of Sam, the sturdiness of Gimli so on and so on. Not tell show.
Okay ... well the screenwriters have added such nice scenes that help do that, like all the Arwen and Aragorn sequences. Well we just tweaked a bunch of bull not in the books, OMG we're not canon ... but the people who have never even picked up the book (to which this film is also made for) remember please ... Hollywood is all about money not about ideals. Okay, screenwriter is done lets say, they added a mess load of stuff, including the elves at Helms Deep which showed heavily not only Elronds ironic words of "will you trust the dwarves, they hide in their caves and care not for ... etc." While his own people are running away.
Sorry, just a dramatic irony, but it shows (not tells) Elronds own struggle. Next ... cut out uneeded characters of minimal value. Shame Glorfindel didn't show up, why ... well sorry but except for that one incident he's not in the entire story again (at least in any point of worth) BUT now we can introduce a character of importance, elven character to remain fairly canatonical ... Legolas (like the animated version) no ... instead we will introduce the love interest of our king, showing her in a nice politically correct female role in which she is both strong and brave (no offense ladies ... I loved it personally) but it attracts the ladies, they don't want ... how shall I put it (Willie from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, in which the feminist movement got tick off if I remember because she was too steroetypical female.)
Also, hmm ... what about, uh I don't know changing the lines around, how about in the book it was Gandalf who WANTED to go into Moria and Aragorn who did not ... well whose trial is it next, Gandalf's and to further Aragorn's decision of being growing into his kingship (bleh) we have made him fairly in the background (as he takes over upon Gandalf's death) so we have Gandalf giving us foreshadowing (ooo nice) and Saurumon punching us in the head with even more ... why because its a 3 hour movie and the normal audience needs incentive and the knowledge of what the hell is going on now.
Back to the process that started this tirade. Screenwriter's write it, Director rewrites and directs it, edits it, then usually the publishers get a say in it, then the corporate leaders, then a test audience, then it goes back to square one until everybody is satisfied and usually a good movie is whittled to sawdust. Now we ask ... if it was director say only ... why is there a directors cut. Simple this is an epic of grand proportions ... I think its quite amazing that they were able to get the majority of the information accross while showing the conflicts and growth of every single major character throughout the films. So why don't we both give our complaints a rest, yours about the movie, and mine about the complaints ... and just enjoy it as a movie ... not the books, not an interpretation of the books, but an attempt to show the ideals, themes, characterisation, plot and everything that makes that a book in a theatrical version and be bloody happy about it.
end of tirade
nothing said here reflects the opinions of the memod team or other affiliates and is the words and to current knowledge opinion of the author ... so deal with it.
Okay ... well the screenwriters have added such nice scenes that help do that, like all the Arwen and Aragorn sequences. Well we just tweaked a bunch of bull not in the books, OMG we're not canon ... but the people who have never even picked up the book (to which this film is also made for) remember please ... Hollywood is all about money not about ideals. Okay, screenwriter is done lets say, they added a mess load of stuff, including the elves at Helms Deep which showed heavily not only Elronds ironic words of "will you trust the dwarves, they hide in their caves and care not for ... etc." While his own people are running away.
Sorry, just a dramatic irony, but it shows (not tells) Elronds own struggle. Next ... cut out uneeded characters of minimal value. Shame Glorfindel didn't show up, why ... well sorry but except for that one incident he's not in the entire story again (at least in any point of worth) BUT now we can introduce a character of importance, elven character to remain fairly canatonical ... Legolas (like the animated version) no ... instead we will introduce the love interest of our king, showing her in a nice politically correct female role in which she is both strong and brave (no offense ladies ... I loved it personally) but it attracts the ladies, they don't want ... how shall I put it (Willie from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, in which the feminist movement got tick off if I remember because she was too steroetypical female.)
Also, hmm ... what about, uh I don't know changing the lines around, how about in the book it was Gandalf who WANTED to go into Moria and Aragorn who did not ... well whose trial is it next, Gandalf's and to further Aragorn's decision of being growing into his kingship (bleh) we have made him fairly in the background (as he takes over upon Gandalf's death) so we have Gandalf giving us foreshadowing (ooo nice) and Saurumon punching us in the head with even more ... why because its a 3 hour movie and the normal audience needs incentive and the knowledge of what the hell is going on now.
Back to the process that started this tirade. Screenwriter's write it, Director rewrites and directs it, edits it, then usually the publishers get a say in it, then the corporate leaders, then a test audience, then it goes back to square one until everybody is satisfied and usually a good movie is whittled to sawdust. Now we ask ... if it was director say only ... why is there a directors cut. Simple this is an epic of grand proportions ... I think its quite amazing that they were able to get the majority of the information accross while showing the conflicts and growth of every single major character throughout the films. So why don't we both give our complaints a rest, yours about the movie, and mine about the complaints ... and just enjoy it as a movie ... not the books, not an interpretation of the books, but an attempt to show the ideals, themes, characterisation, plot and everything that makes that a book in a theatrical version and be bloody happy about it.
end of tirade
nothing said here reflects the opinions of the memod team or other affiliates and is the words and to current knowledge opinion of the author ... so deal with it.
Posted 05 April 2004 - 07:31 PM
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