Garden of Shadows is down, but not out.

[strangetomato]

I thought I'd do my part to spread the word to anyone who might be wondering about Garden of Shadows, and why it's not working. It seems TSR made a legal complaint to GoS's web host about them redistributing their supposedly "copyrighted content." There are more details here on nymphynymms journal. (ETA: And also on Jenfold's dreamwidth journal.)

Thank you to simgaroop for bringing this to my attention. I'm a big fan of Garden of Shadows, even though I mostly lurk. They continue to create quality content for Sims 2, even though most other cc sites gave up the ghost a long time ago. I was thoroughly enjoying the Earth Day monthly theme, and I'm saddened that this messes with their next monthly theme right around that exciting time when the new theme is decided and announced (which theme won? Does anyone know? I was just going to go check). Way to ruin everyone's fun, TSR. Bunch of dicks.

Comments

[lady-talaie.livejournal.com]

To clarafie for meetme2theriver:

In a sense yes it is all owned by EAMaxis. (That is a given which in turn actaully proves that TSR has even less of a leg to stand on.)

But if we pretend that it is indenpent work recolors aside, which need to be with permission any way, all the work in copyrighten to the creators. So if some one had to fix a mesh then they know have rights to it becuase it is not the orginal anymore and is something new. But the post the same thing from one site done by one person and then going to another site with it and claiming that it is some one else is in not okay. That was what I was getting at with intellectual property.

And as to what fantasyrouge said, sereiously if your readin that contract corectly then TSR wins for life and even the creator in some sense get their rears handed to them because they may put their work up at more than one place. Like I know simmers who posted at GoS, Mod, and a Club Crimson. It is still their work and they posted it at more than one place to get it out there. Then people steal it claim it as their own and post on TSR hoping the orginal gets yanked.

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

"But if we pretend that it is indenpent work"

Yes, but... it isn't. Pretending otherwise doesn't make any difference.

[lady-talaie.livejournal.com]

But you get the overall point im trying to make. EAMaxis as granted us the ability to make CC and we do. If you didn't own the Sims 2 to the content wouldn't work any, thus ignoring them from the whole who owns the work anyway since they let the creator take the credit and EAMaxis dose not.