- Nen44
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Game Content Usage Rules
We know that people like you love our games and sometimes want to use things like gameplay footage, screenshots, music, and other elements of our games (“Game Content”) to make things like machinima, videos, and and other cool things (your “Item” or “Items”). We’d like to make that easier for you. So long as you can respect these rules, you can use our Game Content to make your Items.
What can I do?
Here’s the magic words from our lawyers: so long as you respect these rules, Microsoft grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use and display Game Content and to create derivative works based upon Game Content, strictly for noncommercial and personal use. We can revoke this limited use license at any time and for any reason.
If you share your Items with your friends or post them on your web site, then you also must include the following notice about the Game Content. You can put it in a README file, or on the web page from where it’s downloaded, or anywhere else that makes sense so long as anyone who sees your Item will also find this notice.
[The title of your Item] was created under Microsoft’s “Game Content Usage Rules” using assets from GAMENAME, © Microsoft Corporation.
You can also put a link to this page so people know what the Game Content Creation Rules are.
So what does that mean?
We're giving you some very broad rights to create and redistribute content. You don’t have to post the content on your own site – you can link to a third-party site containing your Items if you’d prefer to store them there.
And by the way, these Rules only cover games published by Microsoft Game Studios and where Microsoft owns the copyright. We can’t give you permission to use games from other publishers or games where Microsoft doesn’t own the IP. Sorry, but you’ll have to contact them for that. Where you see a link to this text on a game’s community website, then you’re good to go. As you can see, this will give you access to some of the most popular titles on the PC and Xbox 360, including:
* Age of Empires (all versions)
* Flight Simulator (all versions)*
* Forza Motorsport (all versions)*
* Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, and Halo 3 (when released)
* Kameo
* Perfect Dark Zero
* Project Gotham Racing (all versions)*
* Rise of Nations (all versions)
* Shadowrun
* Viva Piñata
* Use of individual vehicles may require permission from their manufacturer.
What can't I do?
It’s tough to predict everything people will do, but there are some things that you can be sure will get our attention.
* You can’t reverse engineer our games to access the assets or otherwise do things that the games don’t normally permit in order to create your Items.
* You can’t use Game Content to create pornographic or obscene Items, or anything that contains vulgar, racist, hateful, or otherwise objectionable content.
* You can’t sell or otherwise earn anything from your Items. We will let you have advertising on the page with the Item on it, but that’s it. That means you can’t sell it, post it on a site that requires subscription or other fees, solicit donations of any kind (even by PayPal), use it to enter a contest or sweepstakes, or post it on a page you use to sell other items (even if those other items have nothing to do with Game Content or Microsoft).
* You can’t use the soundtracks or audio effects from the original game. We often license those from third parties and don’t have the rights to pass them on to you.
* You can’t infringe anyone’s IP rights in your Item, even if the IP rights being infringed don’t belong to Microsoft. Among other things that means you can’t use any of Microsoft’s trademarked logos or names except in the ways described in the pages linked from www.microsoft.com/trademarks.
* You can’t add to the game universe or expand on the story told in the game with “lost chapters” or back story or anything like that.
* You can’t grant anyone the right to build on your creations. We don’t mind if other people help you out, but you have to be clear with them that it’s not you giving permission, it’s us. (That’s how we make sure everyone plays by the same rules.)
If you do any of these things, you can expect to hear from Microsoft’s lawyers who will tell you that you have to stop distributing your Items right away.
There’s still a way to do some of these things we’ve excluded, but you have to contact us for a commercial license. Thanks, and have fun!
Coincidentally i was reading the Xbox Live EULA and all of that today whilst recovering my GT and it mentions things that would cause the average person to raise and eyebrow.(if u can, because i know people who can't) Annyway they have lines upon lines of Microsoft scripture talking about how one shouldnt in anyway use hateful racist or discriminatory words on XBL. (i also remember the mentioning of a correlation between AIDS n -People who like other men--blam!-ity) O_O
Yeah but honestly on average how many times do you hear/see these XBL rights abused daily? Honestly i doubt that you will see much of a change from the norm of things. Unless someone of course decides to go overboard on something which as on XBL if you modify gaming content or get feedback from telling too many people how there mom was in bed, you will be banned or whatever they have in mind. Juuuust a thought. :D
-Nen
[Edited on 08.21.2007 5:35 AM PDT]