Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26888709-20171224002654/@comment-29620769-20171224003435

I don't think mods really have anything to do with game's copyrights. They don't have the copyrighted game inside them, they only use "links" to use game's resources but don't really have game's own features in them. But mods could be considered as separate works and could be protected with copyrights.

This is for forgemods such as LOTR mod though. There could be mods that have the whole game in them too, so that all player needs to do is run the mod file.