A private server allows a player to play WoW without any interaction with or payment to Blizzard, while hosting patches merely allows easier access and home-made maps allow the player community to add to WoW. Blizzard allows players to host patches and demos and to create their own вЂњhome-madeвЂќ maps and campaigns for WoW so long as it is not for profit, but it refuses to allow any private servers. WoWвЂ™s Terms of Use explicitly bans any вЂњunauthorized servers that emulatesвЂќ WoW as a copyright violation. WoW fans even host their own private servers where the players can do things that are impossible in the regular game. Lilith Games and uCool claim that Blizzard and Valve have no copyright in DotA since it was created and owned by the player community. But, even now in 2017, Blizzard continues to fight over copyright ownership with a recent lawsuit against Lilith Games and uCool which created a game called вЂњDota LegendsвЂќ based on DotA. In 2012, Blizzard settled with Valve for creating DOTA 2 based on the Warcraft 3 map.

Protecting their copyright requires constant vigilance, but there is a fuzzy line when it comes to the player community.Дefense of the Ancients (DotA), a game that started out as a player-created map for Warcraft 3, has created numerous copyright issues for Blizzard. (Blizzard) faces countless copyright issues from profit-seekers and players who take their appreciation too far. With so many players, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. By Kuba BoЕјanowski from Warsaw, Poland (World of Warcraft card game), via Wikimedia CommonsWorld of Warcraft (WoW) is an extremely popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) which boasts over 100 million accounts created and over 12.5 million subscribers at its peak.

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