Currently, the Copyright section in the TOS reads as follows:
You may not include copyrighted content in your projects. You are responsible for making sure you have the necessary rights, licenses, or permission for any user-generated content you submit to PenguinMod. You may get your projects, profile info or posts removed, and or face punishment if you do not properly check whether or not you have permission to include something in your content.
If you are a company, individual, etc. and you believe your copyright has been violated, please view contact methods here: Contact Us
The phrase "You may not include copyrighted content in your projects," by legal definition, disallows everything, as everything, besides that which is in the public domain, is under copyright, including Creative Commons or MIT licensed work. Everything that is human-made is under copyright automatically, whether or not such copyright is actually enforced on any scale (this varies from country to country, but I'm talking US copyright law, here).
There's also the clunky reference to "a company, individual, etc." which would be all encompassed by the term "copyright holder."
I do, however, get the point of the sentence, it's just not correct on its definitions. Here's the reworking that I'd suggest:
You may not include work for which you do not have the necessary rights, licenses, and/or permissions to submit to PenguinMod; you are solely responsible the procurement of such rights, licenses, and/or permissions. PenguinMod may remove projects, profile info or posts, and/or enforce other punishments if you do not properly procure proper rights, licenses, and/or permissions prior to distributing a project on PenguinMod.
If you are a copyright holder and believe your rights have been violated, please view contact methods here: Contact Us
I'm also going to somewhat extend this to the Uploading Guidelines, although I feel its mistakes are far less exaggerated:
You are solely responsible for making sure you have the necessary rights, licenses, or permission for any user-generated content you submit to PenguinMod.
PenguinMod will remove your project if the project violates copyright rules of any copyright holder, and you may face further punishment.
Any copyright holder reserves the right to request take down of your projects if they believe it violates their copyright.
This is, of course, just a suggestion.
Currently, the Copyright section in the TOS reads as follows:
The phrase "You may not include copyrighted content in your projects," by legal definition, disallows everything, as everything, besides that which is in the public domain, is under copyright, including Creative Commons or MIT licensed work. Everything that is human-made is under copyright automatically, whether or not such copyright is actually enforced on any scale (this varies from country to country, but I'm talking US copyright law, here).
There's also the clunky reference to "a company, individual, etc." which would be all encompassed by the term "copyright holder."
I do, however, get the point of the sentence, it's just not correct on its definitions. Here's the reworking that I'd suggest:
I'm also going to somewhat extend this to the Uploading Guidelines, although I feel its mistakes are far less exaggerated:
This is, of course, just a suggestion.