I am so curious to know what that option on a user's profile means. Cheers, Daniel

Could you please link to the page/ profile where you saw this so that we can take a look? It could be that they want you to ask their permission before modifying their files.

Do you mean "Ask me first before modifying/using"?
This is a checkmark you can tick in your content policy - or "Terms of Usage" - if you're a creator on MTS, and how I understand it is that if it is ticked, you should:

- ask before modifying the files or code in any way with the intent to re-upload them.
This could apply, for example, if there is a tuning mod but you do not agree with the way the original creator tuned the values, so you want to change the values and upload this alternative version.

- ask before using the files or code in your own creations.
This could apply, for example, to custom wallpapers you want to use on a lot which you wish to upload.

That said, most people do not mind what you do with their works or their code as long as it's for your own use on your own device. The content policy instead aims to line out how a creator wants their work to spread on the internet.

Oh, thank you for pointing that out.

I happen to come across this thread while perusing this section of MTS.

All players of ANY of the Sims franchise of games need to understand that third party content creators do not have any rights whatsoever to the materials they upload onto the internet.
Please scroll to the bottom of any page at Mod the Sims, including this one, to see Electronic Arts' copyright notice, quote:

Game content and materials copyright Electronic Arts Inc. and its licensors. All Rights Reserved.

EA owns everything anyone makes for any of the Sims franchise of games. Creators own nothing, cannot tell other creators what they may or may not do with the items they upload, and may not restrict the distribution of their creations in any way. Period. This is no different from any other computer game that I have played in the last 40 years. It is what is called an "industry standard".
Anytime anyone uploads anything to the internet that they've created for any of the Sims games, they are basically putting it into the public domain, which means anyone else can do whatever they want with it.

For more info, see my lengthy comment at the end of this short thread: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...ic,23249.0.html (Ignore the person with the obscene screen name.)

Yeah, that's true, but the original poster was talking about this web site, and anything shared here has to respect the creator's wishes. Because we are nice, and it's the right thing to do.

People who post outside of this site can, and will, do what they like with stuff made here, but -by and large- the majority of Sims creators are also nice people, and give credit when it's due, and ask others before using their work.

EA do what they like with our stuff, and in fact an image from this very site ended up in one of the Sims 2 EPs.

What Sims 2 EP and what image? I wanna know!

Anyway, usually I agree with you simsample, and it is a nice thing to do that much I will agree, but we as both players and creators are not legally obligated to adhere to the wishes of content creators. Doing so is simply out of respect not necessity. If a person were to take someone else's content and upload it elsewhere or include it in their upload, then there is sadly simply nothing legally that can be done about it. Only EA has the legal power to say, 'hey this is bad, let's take it down!". And the chance of that happening is usually low, especially with the older titles like TS2.

It is an unfortunate pickle that content creators are in, having no legal ownership to what they actually painstakingly made, but such is the life of a video game content creator.

EDIT: For me personally, I don't really care if you use or modify anything I've shared, whether that be neighborhoods or my other content. It would be nice to have a simple shout out to me as the original creator, a simple "This was originally made by HarVee at ModtheSims", and a link to the original download... but I don't honestly really expect it.

MTS is a private site, so here we can have our own rules and enforce them! We want to respect creators wishes which is why they have a section for a tou. MTS will follow any creators tou, even if they do not host their content here.

Because it's about respect and being kind to each other.

Fansee's Brokeback Mountain image was in the BV holiday photo album:
https://modthesims.info/download.ph...974#post1762974


Yes, but the original poster was asking about creator profiles on this site- and here, it is a site rule that creator wishes must be respected. So, if I put in my profile that I don't want anyone to ever modify my stuff, then the moderators here will reject an upload that contains a mod of my stuff as I've specified not to. I'm not talking about other sites- as I mentioned before, they do what they want, but I often see Tumblr creators state '[creatorname] has a flexible policy so I'm sharing their mesh here too' or somesuch. The creator policy in my profile, and yours, is an appeal to people elsewhere on the internet, but it is a rule for content posted on this site.

I'm not really saying that MTS can't enforce its own rules, and I don't want anyone to think that MTS can't enforce its rules it's why there is a moderator team after all. I am simply stating that from a legal perspective itself, not much can be done about mal intent within the community. Like for example, if a case were to go to court about a Sims content creator theft, arguments on the matter would likely get dismissed as would the case once you bring into light about the EA terms of use or "EULA".

Any who, MTS is very much free to enforce its own rules, and I apologize if you or anyone thought I was arguing against doing that.

It's okay, and thank you.