agusto Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 The Syrian Civil War has caught my eye since the very beginning and i ve spent the past two weeks designing a semi-fictional scenario that depicts the fighting between FSA and SAA in the hills north of Aleppo. But i am having already the next idea for three possible scenarios with that background setting: one at Aleppo international Airport, one a Latika Airport and one at the Meng military airfield north of Aleppo near the town of Azzaz. Now all these three locations do already exsist as CMSF maps. The Meng Airport and Aleppo International come with the Nato module as stock maps and Latika is a great (really, it is awesome) user generated map downloadable from the Repository. The question is now: can i use these maps? Especially Latika seems to be perfect for the type of scenario that i had in mind! Would it be enough to mention the original author in the credits or would i have to ask the person who made these maps for permission to recycle them? It would be awesome if i could use the Latika airport map! EDIT: It is Latakia, not Latika. EDIT 2: This is one of the maps in question: http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=314&func=fileinfo&id=343 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 It's always polite to ask the designer. But, from what I recall from my IP legal days, it's all in the public domain and free to use unless the "author" has put a copyright symbol on his work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil180 Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Surely they are copyright to the author (or employer) unless explicitly placed in the public domain by the author (or have expired)? Depending on the legal jurisdiction, the Berne Convention probably applies, which doesn't require an explicit © or notice. Phil. (Not a lawyer anywhere.) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisND Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 You are free to use my content however you want (Aleppo airport is one of them). In fact I'd be very happy if my maps get reused. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agusto Posted June 19, 2013 Author Share Posted June 19, 2013 You are free to use my content however you want (Aleppo airport is one of them). In fact I'd be very happy if my maps get reused. Thanks! I am gonna send you a message if i decide to use the Aleppo airport map. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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