If that were true there would be SO MANY films, television shows, books, and other things in the public domain right now. I've never heard anything like that before. I'm pretty sure you're pulling that 50 years thing out of your rear. How could it be? You might be able to say that if WB owned CA and by extension the TW games as this would inspire people to go out and get the TW to run the mod, but since that is not the case it leaves nothing for WB to gain. So in 9 or so years this will be a moot discussion. IP generally lasts 50 years after the author's death and then it's done. Was a lot of push to try to get it in Shogun.Īlso Tolkien died in 73. Think Donkey Kong (modder that ran the original mod in MTW 2) though pretty much ruled it out for any other total wars because of the huge amount of effort involved. It's free advertising, and they aren't charging.

That was during the actual movies and releases, they didn't stop them then, they probably won't stop them now. Originally posted by cniht:They made an LOTR mod for MTW 2.

Rome 2 lord of the rings mod