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Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues

posted by martyb on Friday March 16 2018, @11:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-see^w-hear-what-you-[almost]-did-there dept.

takyon writes:

Voice-acting rights halt effort to put Fallout 3 inside Fallout 4

An ambitious modding project that sought to recreate Fallout 3 inside Fallout 4 is shutting down over unforeseen legal issues surrounding the original game's voice acting.

"The Capital Wasteland: A Road To Liberty" project was a five-person effort to implement the base content of Fallout 3 as a mod for Fallout 4, complete with the latter game's graphical and engine improvements. In a message to supporters, though, project lead NafNaf_95 writes that the mod has been shut down after a conversation with Bethesda, in which it "became clear our planned approach would raise some serious red flags that we had unfortunately not foreseen."

That planned approach involved an audio extraction tool that would have taken the voice acting from legitimate Fallout 3 files and converted them to a form that could be used in a Fallout 4 mod. Bethesda and an outside lawyer advised the Capital Wasteland team that extracting this licensed content, which wasn't fully owned by Bethesda, would be legally questionable under copyright law and could make the modders legally liable for damages.

Apparently, having installed copies of the two games and running a utility is not good enough for Bethesda's lawyers.

Fallout 3 and Fallout 4.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DutchUncle on Friday March 16 2018, @12:34PM (3 children)

    by DutchUncle (5370) on Friday March 16 2018, @12:34PM (#653538)

    I understand the impulse to use "the real thing", but it would be much cooler and more creative to do something along the lines of a live-cast reproduction, the way people do for the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Someone let Simon Cowell know about this, and Twitch, and let them create an auditions show. :-)

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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday March 16 2018, @12:37PM (1 child)

    by Wootery (2341) on Friday March 16 2018, @12:37PM (#653539)

    The script is also copyrighted.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @04:52PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @04:52PM (#653669)

      By Bethesda no doubt, who dont seem to mind this mod, and was giving them a friendly warning about the voice actors.

  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday March 16 2018, @01:05PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Friday March 16 2018, @01:05PM (#653561) Journal

    Modded Interesting. I'd like to propose A Toast to you, sir!

    Duck!

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