Necroman,

YOU did not Originally create those ships!

WHAT PART OF THIS DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND???

You used mine and Omni's and Modified the original designs and then taking credit for the original designs Omni and I created.

In the Steam Subscriber Agreement it is SPECIFICALLY stated under Section 6 Paragraph D  User Generated Content: Representations and Warranties;

In particular, with respect to Workshop Contributions, you represent and warrant that the Workshop Contribution was originally created by you (or, with respect to a Workshop Contribution to which others contributed besides you, by you and the other contributors, and in such case that you have the right to submit such Workshop Contribution on behalf of those other contributors).

Again what parts of this do you not understand, seriously???

I own copyright to the custom ships I create for this game and I have the right to say who may and may not use them. They are only on workshop to share for players PERSONAL USE. You have no granted rights to use other players original created custom and redistribute it or other wise take credit for the original design you used and modified but you did not originally make for the game.

You NEVER contacted me to ask for my consent basically amounts to stealing and taking credit for my work which is a DMCA copyright infringement violation. Several of which both Omni and I have filed against your Steam account. Also this is  NOT the first time you have done this! I have had past problems with you doing this going back to 2017.

Necroman,

You break the rules and get caught and then you want to come complain because you got caught?

FOLLOW THE RULES!!!!!

You knew you didn't create the original designs you used. You knew you downloaded them from our personal workshops. YOU KNEW You ARE NOT the ORIGINAL CREATOR? Regardless whether or not my names are on them I created it, I OWN IT and I never gave you my permission to alter it and/or redistribute on your workshop without my consent.

Try making your own custom ships from scratch like the rest of us do!

******************In the Steam Subscriber Agreement it is SPECIFICALLY stated under Section 6 Paragraph D  User Generated Content: Representations and Warranties; *****************

https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/

In particular, with respect to Workshop Contributions, you represent and warrant that the Workshop Contribution was originally created by you (or, with respect to a Workshop Contribution to which others contributed besides you, by you and the other contributors, and in such case that you have the right to submit such Workshop Contribution on behalf of those other contributors).

Again what parts of this do you not comprehend???

You have to file with the patent office to get a copyright for your ships. You do not just say they are copyrighted. Learn the laww.

Incorrect.

The Patent office is exactly what it says...for Patents...hence the name.

Copyright is automatic with the creation of a work.  Lawyers will say they like a Copyright to be registered, but that is PURELY to save them work [proof], nothing else.

Now here's the reality.  I am now retired as an Architect after 46 years of Practice....that's 46 years of dealing with Copyright....and have gone head-to-head with lawyers who THOUGHT they new the Law.  They didn't....and I won the 'argument'.

Specifically, also since 2001 I have on many occasions fought online arguments about Copyright and its theft on behalf of others on Stardock's sites [plural] and haven't worried about International boundaries getting in the way....some of it has been in Norway and Russia, for example.  OK, the language made things 'interesting', but the result was the same.

Where the Law of Copyright is acknowledged there is essentially no difference in its policing.

Perhaps it is time for you to 'Learn the laww' [sic]....

Fact of the matter is that Air master did not create those ships.  Air master used the parts supplied by the games Galactic 1,2,and three. none of the parts of those ships which are copyrighted belonged to him/her. They belong to the game producer and he would be in violation of U.S. law for claiming the collection of game supplied parts as his own design. A matter well documented in the courts by General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler when designers and engineers were trying to take out patents on items they designed while being employed by the big three. Air master di NOT silly the original intellectual property, Airmaster did NOT mark the ships as invisable. Airmaster did Not mark the ships as just for friends or family. Airmaster uploaded all those ships as visible to anyone on stem playing the game leading all other players to believe those ships could be used for their races ships. If airmaster did not want those ships to be used by other players then he/she should have used the proper checked boxes when uploading his/her ship files. When other players selet ships from the selection, they are not given the information on the creator or that ship and if it is not for use by all then it should have been marked so it would never have appeared when other players were looking for a new ship while in design a ship mode using an already designed ship or a new ship style. I did NOT violate any copyright laws, game wise or world. It would behoove airmaster to know the laws before he/she start making accusations that can get he/she sued for slander.

By this logic, architects wouldn't be able to hold onto their own designs either, as the actual parts themselves are provided by lumber and concrete companies. They also would probably be paid far less than they are now, for what it's worth.

I don't know Airmaster even a little bit, but the level of attention to detail in the ships that I have downloaded from him leads me to believe that he would remember if he hired you to design additional ships. I've used a great many of his and Omnibus's ships in my personal civs and it has always been very clear to me that I am appropriating them for my personal enjoyment only.

The whole point of uploading ships is for others to enjoy, however that enjoyment has limits just like everything else. In this case, the limit is between the point of modifying downloaded designs (which is allowed for personal use) and uploading those modified designs as a new creation. The most direct comparison that I can think of is when writing a persuasive essay. It is generally recognized that taking another person's argument and changing a handful of words does not constitute a new position, whereas having a very similar but distinct point of view is a valid mode of reasoning. If you had, in fact, created those designs using a similar method, there would likely be signs in the positioning of some pieces that showed you started from scratch. Since a developer came into the thread and presented examples (kudos for that by the way, I don't think very many companies would have the courage to allow that) I'm inclined to believe they had additional evidence that shows just how exactly many of those pieces line up (even without the confession in Reply #3)

I'm a pretty nice guy, and I'm fairly sure this started out as a misunderstanding of the terms of the Workshop, but you did yourself no favors by coming here and demanding things be put back in an open forum in the way that you did. I honestly chuckled when I read the whole post and then saw the signature "Respectfully" after saying "Your moderator is wrong" and "Your moderators screwed up".

Eazy

Good Grief, your level of ignorant is astonishing. Congratulation on promoting yourself from whinning stuckup little princess to throwing temper trantrum. You shifted the entire argument from claiming your right that altering, editing, modifying, or improving upon someone else works is okay and you should taking up some credit for it to shotgunning the argument in attempting to find a hole where your opponent couldn't answer and dig into it to win the argument just for the sake of argument. You start making this personal against Airmaster. This doesn't look healthy at all.

I hope you been doing this because you been frustrated and lashing out without logical thinking beacuse your modified creation of Airmaster, and Omnibus's ship been removed from the Steam Workshop and render yourself unable to use it on your own anymore. Admit it and walk away. Stardock staff decision is final and you should respect that to some degree. Don't digging this hole deeper than it should be.

OMG! No one can be this dumb, Nocroman, seriously!?