Ubisoft Removes Far Cry 5 'GoldenEye' Maps Following Copyright Claim

Should've gotten the rights first or at least contacted them first. Serves him right for creating something that wasn't his.

So as someone reading this article with no knowledge of the Far Cry 5 Map editor, are they using tools available in the map editor by default to create maps that look like maps from an N64 game, or were mods and stolen/copied assets at play?

@OliverOwen can’t tell if you are serious?

It’s a map creator in a game. People recreate famous maps/movies/places and games in create modes all the time.

It’s ridiculous to remove them.

What next Rocky gets removed from Fight night champion and all the created boxers, create a wrestler should be deleted from all wrestling games?

Do you think people got permission from Legion of Doom or Frank Bruno before creating them?!?

What about in PES? Should people contact Manchester United/west ham etc before making them?

Why have create modes?!?

Same as track editors - most people make real tracks. They are what become most downloaded.

It’s ridiculous it’s come to this…. MGM legal team are bored

@Stocksy It was a joke, and silly me for posting it online because you couldn't tell my sarcasm in real life. You are totally correct and it's sad that they have to go that far to take away someone's hard work.

@OliverOwen Sarcasm seldom translates well on the internet, especially when you are just typing things on text. This is definitely one of those situations where I think it's ridiculous to claim a copyright strike as nobody was trying to sell anything or profit off of it, it was simply free user generated content. Taking down content like this should only happen if someone was trying to sell it.

Especially when it comes to locations, I think this is one of those incidents where the lawyers are overreaching their legal capabilities. Films can't copyright the locations they use in their films, if someone films something at the Hoover Dam it doesn't become their right to claim ownership of it in any media, nor do they have the ability to remove anyone else's content because they filmed at that location as well. Same deal with a video game, they can't really claim ownership of the locations they used, especially considering how several of the levels are based off real locations.

This could honestly bite them in the butt as they might be opening the door for asking if video game companies need permission for every location they feature in their video games. Tons of video games feature famous locations, often used in various famous movies and in media, I doubt they all have the official permissions of everyone to feature them.

@OliverOwen I figured you were but MGM aren’t joking… I honestly believe the world has gone mad.

Damn.. 1,400 hours just to have it removed..

@Broosh Default tools.

This is like taking down DragonBall Z maps from Warcraft 3 when "Gohan" is a Paladin that has just been renamed Gohan.

At least we have the videos of them on YouTube for now. Until they realise that’s the place the creator can make money from them.
Soon they’ll be closing real world locations where Bond films have been made as people can pretend they are James Bond walking through these areas.

@Stocksy The only reason they are getting away with this is because they are picking on the little guys who don't have any legal means to fight them. What the lawyers are doing is technically illegal as they don't have the authority to do what they are doing nor do they have any actual legal backing, this is typical for a case that gets challenged in court so it's up to the court to decide what is and isn't legal in this scenario. However that tends to cost a lot of money in law fees, and I doubt any of these content creators have the kind of money to challenge it. Obviously Ubisoft could easily challenge it but I doubt they want to get wrapped up in a lawsuit over some user created content when they can just easily remove it and be done with it.

@InterceptorAlpha Wow. Yeah so this is utter BS. So if you built Goldeneye maps in Minecraft you better watch your back!

Probably should've spent 1400 hours doing something unique and original

That is the risk you take when you lift someone else’s property/IP/work. If this had been flipped folks would have been demanding that companies pay up. Don’t know why wealth means it’s ok to rip/steal from others.

Nintendo only had the publishing rights and, reportedly, they expired in 2017. MGM/Danjaq own the James Bond IP rights and the "Goldeneye" name but it's weird that they claim that the game maps belong to them when the game was made by Rare. The maps don't belong to MGM but to Rare.

@Xiovanni But they do have access/ownership rights to the movies these maps are based on. I get that it sucks for the modder but I am with MGM on this. He should have requested permission or if possible not distributed the maps (I have no idea how this creation tool works so that may not be possible) and many of those tools have a TOS that nobody reads prohibiting this lifting other people’s IP. IP holders have every right to defend their property.

If this had been flipped and mods had been lifted from a source that does not make them property of the tool provider, folks would have screamed that the company involved owes the modder money. Morality shouldn’t change because the victim is a company and has money (note I said morality not the law as the two are separate).

@Xiovanni looking at the video provided in the article these are locations from the single player portion of the game which are based upon scenes/sets from the movie. Which are MGM property/assets. I stand by my original comments.

The modder is more than welcome to prove how these maps have nothing to do with the goldeneye movie to have them reinstated. Anyway. I don’t frequent this site enough to keep going rounds about this so I will agree to disagree and move on. Have a nice day.