This is what I was talking about in the CoH forums, in that *we* own the characters we make.
We do not own the *art* the characters are made up from. But we own the "assembly process" if you will, the selection of the parts that the character is made of, that *code* is ours.
As is the text/lore of our Bios for those characters.
And is extensible to the pertienent parts of the MA missions you write: The mission makeup, the text in it, and any custom creations that are truly yours. I.E., not a Venom clone or such.
But also note that if any of this is previously copyrighted (Iron Man clones... or even anyone making a 'Thing of Bigness' or 'Brawling Humiliator' character that looks like mine, shares my character's name, or has my character's back story, btw) could or will invalidate your claim to rights of the IP of that character/story, or portions of it.
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Or so I read it as, anyway.
Now... this is the thing I wanted to ask, as the tough part has been settled, IMO, on whether I own the character or not:
Is it possible that, if the game can't be saved/kept running otherwise, to somehow injunct NCSoft from shutting down all pertinent services related to *my being allowed to access my character?*
Thing is... without a functioning client and game server (in this case, Pinnacle, and Virtue for my 'houtex' avatar) I cannot access my character. I also cannot access my missions.
In other words, I am prevented from accessing MY IP.
Can NCSoft do this? Or is it that I can... somehow... get the 'my IP' part of the characters and/or MA Arcs offline and separated from the game, and that's all I need to have NCSoft be washed of any further action? Regardless of whether I can actually use them or not?
I think this is A Thing(tm) that needs to be looked into by people way more intelligent and versed in The Law than I.
Anyway. There I went. Thanks!
#SaveCoH
Mike