Are structures built in Minecraft copyrightable?
<p>Are structures built in Minecraft copyrightable?</p>
<p>Specifically, can you use copyright law to prevent others from distributing world files containing only original structures you built (and not anything naturally generated)?</p>
<p>This, to me, seems to be an original, concrete work of authorship, and so should be copyrightable. However, I can't find any credible statements about this specifically regarding Minecraft maps.</p>
<p>Hopefully the answer would be consistent internationally, but I am particularly interested in the US.</p>

<h2>All artistic and literary work has copyright at the moment of creation</h2>
<p>This includes things “built” in Minecraft. However, under the terms of the Minecraft <a href="https://account.mojang.com/documents/minecraft_eula" rel="nofollow noreferrer">licence</a> you give a wide ranging copyright licence to Mojang:</p>
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<p>If you make any content available on or through our Game, you agree to give us permission to use, copy, modify, adapt, distribute, and publicly display that content. This permission is irrevocable, and you also agree to let us permit other people to use, copy, modify, adapt, distribute, and publicly display your content. You are not giving up your ownership rights in your content, you are just giving us and other users permission to use it.</p>
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