Without limiting the foregoing, you hereby assign to Blizzard all of your rights, title and interest in and to all Custom Games, and agree that should Blizzard decide that it is necessary, you agree to execute future assignments promptly upon receiving such a request from Blizzard." "Custom Games are and shall remain the sole and exclusive property of Blizzard. Even in March 2010, before SC2 launched, they insisted that all maps and things created in the editor "are and shall remain the sole and exclusive property of Blizzard." This latest policy covering all Blizzard games is based heavily on StarCraft II's policy, which as of June 2019 said: So far as I-a non-lawyer-can tell, their latest ownership clause is much longer but not all that much different to the policy they've had with StarCraft II custom games for years.
Without limiting the foregoing, you hereby assign to Blizzard all of your rights, title, and interest in and to all Custom Games, including but not limited to any copyrights in the content of any Custom Games." The ownership clause of Blizzard's current custom game acceptable use policy says: Over on Blizzard's forums, user ThunderPope has been sounding the alarm about Blizzard's changes to their "Custom Games Acceptable Use Policy." Most folks seem quite fixated on Blizzard's ownership of custom games created by players in the map editor.
The new legalese, while definitely overbearing and disappointing, shouldn't be a surprise: they started tightening legal claims years ago with StarCraft II. Defense of the Ancients sparked MOBA titles such as Dota 2 and League of Legends which are played today but Blizzard will be preventing such custom games in Warcraft 3: Reforged. A large part of Blizzard’s policy regarding the Warcraft 3: Reforged custom games details how all ownership of custom games in Reforged belongs to Blizzard and not the creators of the games.Warcraft 3: Reforged is officially available on Mac and PC now.Īny Warcraft 3: Reforged custom games that use copyright material from third parties are banned, so custom games like DBZ Tribute, Anime Fight and Pimp My Mario can’t be remade either. Blizzard can do whatever it wants with the custom games, including fully removing them if the content is deemed inappropriate by their standards, which has become a standard in the industry since the release of the original Warcraft 3.It's come to everyone's attention that Blizzard have revamped their User Generated Content policy just in time to launch Warcraft 3: Reforged, and claim ownership of all maps made in its editor. In an effort to protect themselves from another Defense of the Ancients situation, Blizzard has copyright protected the custom games in Warcraft 3: Reforged.
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