Is this legal in Germany?
Posted:
Fri Apr 01, 2016 12:51 amby Egemenmon2
As the title says I just wanted to know officially if this is
1. legal in Germany (at least for the consumer)
and if the answer is yes or at least grey zone if its legal when i've never played WoW before, like I've never bought it.
I hope this is in the right board and thanks for any help.
Re: Is this legal in Germany?
Posted:
Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:47 pmby Uzephi
If I remember correctly, the law for artistic copyright, like warcraft, since this version is "outdated" and no longer supported, it is a legal grey area due to owner no longer supporting the content.
In US, it is still against copyright, but most courts won't care if the person/organization doesn't make profit as then it is technically under fair use laws and in a grey area which hasn't really come up as of yet for unsupported content. Most private server lawsuits for current content will go through as that product is still sold and supported by the company. The only private server projects that had a legal system go after them and lose were one's who started making money off the project.
TL/DR: legal grey area. As a consumer, you will not be in any trouble.