#ea tou

[alienajummattv]

I love all the patreon creators saying it's a new policy. It's not. The Sims team has mentioned it multiple times before publicly and on their official forums. They're only concerned about it now because EA made it apart of their Terms & Conditions which effects all games under the EA publishing. If EA didn't add it to their T&C they wouldn't be acting like it's the end of the world. I will also say not all patreon creators are evil. It's just the clearly money hungry and greedy ones that I hate. Like they act like it's a job it's not it's a hobby it's always been a hobby and you can ask people for donations and I can promise you if people really like your creations and the work you do they will donate to support you. You can even open up commissions or do what I'm seeing some creators do and make stuff for blender and make blender stuff a Pay to Use. Before patreon was huge people had Ko-Fi's and would ask for donations on their posts and a lot of people got donations that way and could pay their bills and medical expenses and whatever else they needed money for. EA didn't do it just to attack the Sims community and get back at them for shitting on the sims. They did it to protect their games and to allow people equal access to the same mods for their games that their creators worked on to make. Sims isn't the only game you can mod that EA owns and it's not the only game with a Paywall community. Just be glad they even allowed modding in sims 4 that shit was a nightmare before and they could have easily blocked modding in the sims 4. All in all this isn't the end of the world and if people would have just followed The Sims Team's original TOU about Patreon and paywalls the whole community wouldn't be effected.

Shout out to the people fixing the High School Year bugs too while we wait for the official fix from the sims team next week. I can't test any of my cc until they fix it but I can at least play the game.

[paywallawareness]

[miriah01]

Tingelingelater has gong to far!

Because a friend of mine sent out links to tingelingelater’s content on tumblr. Tingelingelater has gone after my friend and reported her to tumblr, blogger and google for violation of copyright! Ha my friend went to a lawyer and as I stated tingelingelater is in violation of EA/Maxis TOU and the ELUA that states that ANY User material that is made by using EA's Copyrighted material the User grants EA and it User complete access to the rights of said material. This includes images made while in the games.  Tingelingelater is in serious trouble and needs to learn that she can not just attack someone because they post links to her images and files that really DO NOT belong to her! 

[miriah01]

Tingelingelater at it again!

Looks like because someone shared the files that Tingelingelater CONVERTED from other people’s meshes that he is having a hissey fit and removed all content .... EVEN all the files that WERE NOT HIS ...... Someone needs to inform this person that EA/Maxis claims ALL custom content at rightfully theirs when you purchase The Sims game.  So NOTHING is his, especially the files that all he did was convert them from OTHER people’s meshes!  

[lazysundrops]

4. Use of Content and Entitlements/General License Restrictions EA grants you a personal, limited, non-exclusive license to use Content and Entitlements to which you have access for your personal, private, non-commercial, non-transferable, limited uses solely as set forth herein and as set forth in any additional Terms applicable to the EA Services accessed by you.  Content and Entitlements and all other intellectual property rights in or on EA Services as well as the products and services offered through EA Services, are owned by EA or EA's third party licensors and are protected by United States and International copyright, trade dress, patent, and trademark laws, international conventions, and other laws protecting intellectual property and related proprietary rights. You may not copy, access, or download any Content and/or Entitlements from an EA Service unless you are expressly authorized to do so.  In addition, unless expressly authorized by EA, you may not distribute, publicly perform or display, lease, sell, transmit, transfer, publish, edit, copy, create derivative works from, rent, sub-license, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise make unauthorized use of Content or Entitlements.  Any commercial use is prohibited.  You agree not to remove, obscure, or alter copyright, patent, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices affixed to Content.  Your rights are subject to your compliance with these Terms of Service as well as any other applicable Terms. EA reserves all right, title and interest in any Content, Entitlements, EA Services and all associated copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights therein that are not expressly granted to you in these Terms of Service.  Your permitted use of Content and Entitlements described above is limited by the intellectual property rights of EA and does not include any rights to other patents or intellectual property.  Making unauthorized copies or distribution of Content and/or Entitlements found on EA Services may result in the termination of your Account(s), prohibition on use of EA Services, and further legal action as set out in Section 9 below.  Content and/or Entitlement owners may take legal action against you for unauthorized use of intellectual property.

[redheadedsims]

EA TERMS OF USE

When I see the Custom Content discussion wars flare up here in simblrland from time to time, I wonder how many people actually READ the EA Terms of Use and whether they think there's a difference between TOU and TOS (Terms of Service).  There just may be.

In the meantime, for those who believe they have a right to be selective on what they have "created" as to who gets access, and spent many a day and hours to master meshing, texturing techniques to justify the exclusivity and stipulation on what can be done with "their" creations, this pretty much spells it out.  Everything is owned by EA, everything, this includes anything RELATED, so please keep this in mind when someone has a fit about who has the "right" to use "their" custom content.  Without the game, where would the content be utilized?  In the end, it's understood that the game is EA's property and anything RELATED, is also theirs to use/reproduce as they see fit.  ALL EA's, baby, whether you use the Launcher, the Store content, create a new mesh, etc. etc. etc. And the kicker?  CC -- it's also for public not private use, i.e., "other users".

See here:

"3. In exchange for enabling your contribution of content, when you contribute content through the Software, you expressly grant to EA a non‐exclusive, perpetual, fully transferable and sublicensable, worldwide, irrevocable right to use, reproduce, modify and create derivative works from, distribute, transmit, broadcast, and publicly display and perform the content, or any portion thereof, in connection with the distribution of such content to other users and potential users of the Software (such as, for example, featuring such content for download in The Sims 3 Launcher) and in the marketing and advertising of the Software, without further notice, payment or attribution to you. You grant EA all licenses, consents and clearances to enable EA to use such content for such purposes.

4. In exchange for the right to use content contributed by other users through the Software, when you contribute content through the Software, you expressly grant to other users of the Software the non‐exclusive, perpetual, transferable, worldwide, irrevocable right to access and use, copy, modify, display, perform, and create and distribute derivative works from, your contributed content in connection with the Software, and to distribute and otherwise communicate your contributed content as a component of works that they create using the Software, for example,