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Originally Posted by Cad  Mods would most likely be classified derivative works, yes Blizzard would in that case own the copyright. They absolutely could copy it line for line into the base UI. |
Unless the mod uses code from the base UI (which a decent number of them do, although far fewer than there were a few years ago), there's nothing about them that makes them derivative works. That's also not how derivative works work; the original copyright holder doesn't magically gain ownership of the new material created.
