That would obviously be illegal.
It can be done, but I wouldn't recommend to share it for obvious reasons.
Core Dynamics company motto?
No it's not as long as you don't put a price on it. In fact you have replica of real aircrafts and airlines liveries. I'm sure the legal office of these is much bigger than the frontier's.
Yeah exactly... can someone import the model in the sdk?
I have no MSFS, so I don't care
Read up on copyright law - making money from it is yet another issue.
Which is entirely possible and legal if you (i.e. Microsoft) got permission in advance. And the size of the legal office doesn't matter. Or do you mean on that 3rd party site? There is a lot of copyright (and otherwise) illegal content on the internet. Sometimes it gets prosecuted, other times not.
That is entirely up to FDev. Ask them in advance, and they will tell you whether you will get permission or not. It's not that complicated: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-media-usage-rules.510879/
I'd be interested to know where the legal line is drawn. I've seen modders use assets from other games with the caveat that "You must own that game to legally use this mod." For example, I'm having a blast flying X4 Foundation ships in Space Engine. These ships are freely available in the SE Workshop on Steam, and I'm assuming if Egosoft had a problem with it, that would not be the case.
That's overly simplistic. I think selling someone else's creative work will more quickly bring the owner's wrath, but putting a copy of Taylor Swift's latest hit song in a public Dropbox and then linking it here would most definitely land you in hot water. At the very least it'll be taken down, and you'd likely be suspended from Dropbox and the forum.
This is only possibly allowed if the assets are not included in the mod itself. That is why you will not see such mods with assets owned by EA, for example. EgoSoft is too small to go after this.
I genuinely don't know. Intuitively I'd assume you can't really claim a basic geometric shape for example. Then again, American law seems to basically be build around the idea that the most expensive lawyer wins so who knows.
All I know is you really cannot take actual assets from a commercial product and share the files on the internet. Whether FD will take action is another question.But the Cobra isn't that basic. Cobra is made out of very basic shapes, due to the early limitations of computers. In fact every graphic is made of basic geometric shapes in games (and probably many movies). I'd say Cobra is quite iconic because it was one of the first designs and it gained popularity. That, imo, constitutes its - end Elite's - intellectual property.This is only possibly allowed if the assets are not included in the mod itself. That is why you will not see such mods with assets owned by EA, for example. EgoSoft is too small to go after this.
I genuinely don't know. Intuitively I'd assume you can't really claim a basic geometric shape for example. Then again, American law seems to basically be build around the idea that the most expensive lawyer wins so who knows.
Sorry, didn’t realise it was the mfs sdk
