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August 15, 2007 Link to this post
Game Content Usage Rules from MS
Laird noticed that over at Xbox.com, Microsoft has posted their Game Content Usage Rules, spelling out what their game content can, and cannot, be used for. For the most part, it's great news; there's now an official policy in place stating what you need to do in order to legally use footage from, say, Halo in a fan creation - no more worrying that you're skirting the law, or that the MS legal team will come down on you like a ton of Brutes. However, some of the rules might give Halo machinima makers pause; there are, for example, rules like this:
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.
As I think back about some of the best machinima I've seen, an awful lot of it 'adds to the game universe' - does this new policy mean that these projects will have to be taken down? (Louis Wu 13:33:48 UTC)
