With all the licensing/brands/ logo problems, would it be possible to allow or make possible player designed liveries to be used on AI trains, across the board not just on PC?
You can use the CC liveries, but the problem is that those will substitute of course, so you will still mainly see original liveries released from DTG or other devs. The mods are PC only, no way to implement those for consoles. We would need some kind of funcionality where we could disable the original livery and force the game to use the one downloaded fron CC on ALL of the trains.
I doubt it. I think even making it PC mod only, could still cause licencing issues for DTG. I'm sure Matt advised this recently and asked people not to create those kind of mods for another route.
Oh, I didn't realize that it could get DTG in troubles. Probably we could use the unofficial mod, but avoid uploading screenshots and videos while using it.
DTG can provide the train sim, what YOU do with it is out of their control in terms of player created content, so long as it is on a closed server, no multiplayer...COUGH!!! Player creativity is fine, but DTG probably won't be able to use your unlicense GWE screenshot, DTG could create a watermark system that states that "player created Livery" as in don't take DTG to court, but they have to enable that system or create it and would they?
I would find it highly unlikely that anyone would attempt to pursue DTG for something that appears in an unofficial, community mod. Mods are also free of charge and not sold. This is similar to AP's branding practices, and how they can get away with providing free "realistic branding patches" for their paid enhancement packs, because they're provided separately and completely free of charge. Obviously you need to pay for the thing to make use of it though.
Yeah, I think there is something about free images in public and creative license as such that allows individuals to create from scratch there version, if I am not mistaken? But if I created a livery and started charging money, that's when companies get the shirty.
