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Originally Posted by Cole_William Who said he was selling? We are talking usage, not selling. Under what law will it protect SAMP Coding? Also how is Rockstar responding to people copyrighting their code genre? Pretty sure legally that to even get a code copy written to a Rockstar North Game you be paying millions and millions, and NGG is only making thousands.

You don't have to be selling something or making a profit to infringe copyright.

I just said nobody should be taking or giving advice here, but for the sake of hopefully preventing people believing crap like this, I'll go. Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer or an expert in copyright law, this is just simple stuff that seemingly cannot be comprehended by 95% of people here who make reference to copyright laws. If anyone here is more knowledgeable than me, and what I'm saying is wrong, please let me know.

The copyright of any piece of work of reasonable effort belongs to the author. That means a piece of code such as NGRP's SA-MP script. The fact that it's a SA-MP script has nothing to do with copyright laws, it's an independant work and nobody else (such as the SA-MP team or Rockstar) can change the fact that it belongs to the author. That means the author can decide who gets to use it. If someone obtains it and distributes it without the author's permission, that doesn't automatically give any rights to anyone else. Same goes if you obtain it and change a few things around (as Harmon suggested) - it does not make it your work and if you couldn't legally use it before, you can't legally use it now.