Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!I shall reserve judgement (and acidic hatred and bile) until (if) I find out what said IP issues are.
That's not to say, however, that this decision doesn't leave me with the knee-jerk reaction of wanting to type obscenities into this post until I find one that the autocensor hasn't been programmed to cope with.
As Ghostwalker said, given that (a) it already exists as a complete object and (b) as a fan-film the crew have no desire or intention of making money from it, that something could be agreed to release it. It would be a crying, crying shame to see it simply binned.
The video games that our licensing partners have created have done an incredible job of bringing the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 games to life, and we appreciate that hobbyists may even want to make movies based upon our intellectual property. Unfortunately, due to the nuances of the law in some territories, we cannot allow any unlicensed movies to be created which are based upon our intellectual property.
Splat.
Would really, really like to know what said nuances of law are.
I don't suppose that's worth it? Does anyone know who I'd need to email to find this out - roughly?
(Rasmus, I'm probably looking at you here as you know the Damnatus team)
I'm not asking for details on negotiations or any such sillyness, merely for someone to point me at (an English translation of) the relevant bit of German law and explain why it's a problem....