Freelancer Copyright

[Aaron_Cianci]

First piece of advice I always give anyone on a legal question: Unless the person giving said advice is a lawyer who is a member of the bar in the state, province or country where you're going to do something, their advice should be taken with a grain of salt.

Second piece of advice: What you're talking about is called a derivative work. It absolutely does require the authorization of the original copyright holder in order to make a derivative work. Unless you have authorization from Microsoft, they abandon the copyright to Freelancer (which I don't think they have) or they have shown a blatant disregard for their copyright interests in Freelancer in the past that a lawyer could prove, you are violating copyright law.

Sorry to be the bearer of two pieces of bad news.

Aaron
Note: I am not a lawyer, but I do play one on the Discovery Freelancer forums.

And how I contact them?

Here's the link to the "allowed" license that Microsoft Game Studios gives for game content. It gives a pretty good description of what is okay and what isn't: https://www.xbox.com/en-us/developers/rules

Regarding how to reach Microsoft regarding a copyright request, unfortunately, that information isn't easy to find. You'd likely have to engage a lawyer to even get their attention on the question.

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