"The copyright holder always has the right, but unlike trademarks they don't need to protect it," lawyer Richard Hoeg stated when asked about how publishers could react and halt modders. "If you look at the EA permit, you're not technically allowed to stream, however there are loads of Twitch streamers playing Madden."

"If EA looks at your articles and finds it is not offensive they may see it as enhancing the quality of their merchandise," Hoeg said. "However, the NFL is a remarkably litigious organization[.] If they find something and flag it could lead to it getting taken down." Most of what the modding community does could be considered positive, but there also have been attempts to introduce off-the-field problems prevalent within the NFL in Madden. For example, modders have attempted to replicate holdouts and suspensions due to prohibited performance enhancing drugs by incorporating in-game occasions that would disrupt the franchise mode and force the Madden NFL participant to bargain with them. The modders Launcher spoke with for this story said they have encountered trouble in creating this work in Madden's inflexible systems.

"The NFL is going to be mostly concerned about brand great will, being associated with all the terrible parts of football," Hoeg said. "They are going to promote [EA] to remove that." The Madden community doesn't work in secrecy, but it's spread across different forums and applications like Discord. "We've been in existence for such a long time, I really don't see what would change with EA now," Martinez explained. "We do not charge, it's all totally free. We're building something and hope to continue to see it grow"

Martinez says that the community is adding new content and features almost daily. Some pieces of Madden NFL they modify are modest, like altering the ESPN broadcast emblem to FOX once the wrong network is displayed in-game for a particular matchup. The shift may seem subtle, but it's a significant component for Madden NFL gamers that want the most real experience possible to their period with Madden. "It's an immersion thing, we would like to experience exactly the same thing that comes up when we see a match on TV," Martinez said, imagining a hope their work eventually becomes an official part of Madden NFL. "we would like to make the experience better for us and get EA to see what we're doing."

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