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> microsoft copyrights on world files If that were something to worry about, then wouldn't OpenOffice, LibreOffice, iWork, Google Docs, etc. all be in legal tr

• orclev 12y ago
  Nope because MS doesn't create .doc files, they just make the software that saves/loads them. The issue in this case is that the Minecraft textures and item geometry are created by MS (by way of Mojang) and hence MS has the copyright on them. If you replace the textures with alternative ones created by other people you're probably in the clear so far as the textures go, but the NPCs and objects geometry data is still covered.
  • indenturedsmile 12y ago
    But the world files are just the save files. As far as I know, there are no texture or object data in the saves.
    • sitharus 12y ago
      Definitely true. Plus there's a long standing precedent that save files aren't copyrightable, since they aren't a derivative work.
      • wlesieutre 12y ago
        One could maybe make the case that Minecraft's terrain generation would make your world a derivative work, but if you're building in superflat than definitely agreed. I have no idea about the former, but if MS had any claim to a world built from scratch then Adobe would own everything ever made in Photoshop and Autodesk would own pretty much all video game content since the late 90s.