Damnatus

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Damnatus: The Enemy Within was a non-commercial low-budget movie made in Germany "by fans for fans," that takes part in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

The most enduring problem with Damnatus' release was a conflict of copyright laws in England and Germany. German copyright law confers the intellectual rights of created works to the people that created them, and thus Games Workshop would lose the rights to the intellectual property of Warhammer 40,000, on which Damnatus is based. Games Workshop has thus far refused to allow it to be shown, and has not changed this position despite online petitions and requests from the filmmakers. As a result, Damnatus was ended indefinitely on October 15, 2007.