Fan Projects, Mods and Copyright: What Readers Should Know

Fan work deserves respect, and it also deserves honest labels, and the Dota 2 Mobile fan project and rights position on this site is the same throughout: the project is unofficial, it is not a Valve release, and content here will be removed on request from the rights holder.

Fan Work Is Real Work

Community projects are made by volunteers who love a game enough to build something from it in their spare time. That work can be skilled, creative, and impressive, and communities often learn from it. Nothing on this site dismisses that effort. The question is never whether fan work has value. It is whether fan work is the official game, and the answer is no.

Why It Is Not Official

Official games are made by the company that owns the game, with legal responsibility, paid teams, testing, and support. Community work has none of those, however good it is, and it can stop, change direction, or disappear without warning. The how fan projects differ from official games guide sets out those differences in full, and the why fan projects and official games are kept apart guide explains why this site does not hand out unofficial files.

Removal on Request

Respect for the rights holder is also why this site states its removal position plainly: Valve owns Dota 2, and content on this site will be removed promptly on request from the rights holder. Readers who own rights in anything described here can contact the site, and the content will be dealt with. That commitment is part of writing about community work honestly, not an afterthought. Dota 2 Mobile coverage is an example of that commitment in practice.

Dota 2 Mobile coverage on this site therefore stays informational by design: descriptions, comparisons, and guides to the real PC game, with no official art presented as a mobile app, and no claim that community work is Valve work.