Jorge.
I made work for GP4.
I put it on the internet under MY name for FREE to be DOWNLOADED.
Therefore, I made it open to anyone to take, edit, use in the game, modify whatever. Even if I asked not to, I can't STOP people doing it. It isn't illegal.
If I download your work now, and re-release it under my name, what can you do? Nothing. It is not a crime, I can do it. Everyone can.
The only thing wrong is MORALS. It isn't the law. It isn't a crime. It is just morally and wrongly justified.
Now, had I paid many, many, many HUNDREDS and THOUSANDS of pounds to copyright what I did; let alone pay all those other copyrighted logos and brands used in my work, then I could have a point.
Unfortunately, I didn't.
In putting something up for free public download, it is there to take, and people will take more than they should.
Jorge, you have taken something which isn't your own in the first place - the game - the edit and modify. Did you ask permission to edit the game? No.
And now someone edits your work, or whatever, you complain.
Leeching and stealing happens. You can't do something yourself and then complain someone else is doing the same.
I know by now you are crying another 'but I didn't steal peoples work as my own'. You edited the game, or parts for a game WITHOUT PERMISSION. The same category as RIPPING SOMEONES WORK again WITHOUT PERMISSION. Same thing.
YES it is your work, you did it, but unless you PAY for it to be copyrighted, and you stop making it FREELY available then it will happen. And again. And again. Nobody can stop that.
Unless you copyright it and pay.
Sure, it sucks. It isn't nice to have your work ripped by someone else, but that is what it will do unless you pay for copyright.
What would you do suddenly if Bridgestone came down on you and sued you for using their logo without permission...?
Look at the film making industry.... some English and Creative students submit film ideas to companies to get themselves heard. It is a student's original work, and they show it to someone.
There is nothing stopping someone hearing that idea, and then making the movie without the student, because his idea was NOT copyrighted.
Same thing.
You want it protected? You pay for it to be.
Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole it