DayZ - IP - BiStudio, Rocket or both?

[robertfontaine 0]

Who owns the intellectual property on this mod?

[BaitedHook 24]

dayz belongs to rocket if he were to break away from bistudio and uses his own engine.

funny if he just made his own engine and own game and release it he would probably keep all the millions biohemia gets lol, but then again that would take a lot of time. about 10 million dollar minus cuts from steam and distributers

and with those 10 million and going up every single day he can have big houses, beautiful women, fast cars and basically live the high life.

Edited July 12, 2012 by BaitedHook

[ZedsDeadBaby 2287]

It depends on what intellectual property you're talking about. It's kind of mixed up at this point.

BI owns Chernarus and all the models and content therein, probably including rocket's zombies since those are based on existing ARMA models.

rocket has copyright on his "original creation" which are, I guess, the code and script files which control things like spawn rates, loot spawns, and the zombie AI, path finding, etc.

So, in essence, right now DayZ is very much shared. Although the majority probably belongs to BI for better or worse. Most of the content is their's.

This relationship will likely continue. Even if DayZ becomes stand-alone, BI will be involved and rocket will probably never completely break away. To do so would mean developing a new game engine from scratch, which by rocket's own estimation would take approximately 20 years given his current team.

Edited July 12, 2012 by ZedsDeadBaby

[Dingus (DayZ) 429]

It is rocket's. It is simply a mod at the moment.

However, we do not have the details of anything going on behind the scenes really. This is my best answer.

edit- As always ZedsDeadBaby has a much better and comprehensive reply.

Edited July 12, 2012 by Dingus

[BaitedHook 24]

It depends on what intellectual property you're talking about. It's kind of mixed up at this point.

BI owns Chernarus and all the models and content therein, probably including rocket's zombies since those are based on existing ARMA models.

rocket has copyright on his "original creation" which are, I guess, the code and script files which control things like spawn rates, loot spawns, and the zombie AI, path finding, etc.

So, in essence, right now DayZ is very much shared. Although the majority probably belongs to BI for better or worse. Most of the content is their's.

This relationship will likely continue. Even if DayZ becomes stand-alone, BI will be involved and rocket will probably never completely break away. To do so would mean developing a new game engine from scratch, which by rocket's own estimation would take approximately 20 years given his current team.

there goes Dean "Rocket" Hall's dream of big hou$e$, beautiful women$$ and fa$t Car$