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Sam_Protagonist is the name of the voice for Media Molecule on the Playstation Underground Forums. He's the go-between for fans and the devs, and with the recent uproar, rumours, and news of Levels being deleted in LittleBigPlanet he has given an announcement about it, to shed some light on the issue.
Hit the link to view the whole discussion (current and future posts by Sam), or even take part in the discussion and get some answers from Sam.
We have been looking into the current issues surrounding the moderation of LittleBigPlanet levels, as it is clear that we're not currently going far enough to inform users who have had a creation moderated why the action was necessary. We are moving towards a system whereby rather than receiving a generic message any affected user will also receive an indication of what was found to be infringing on the EULA. We're additionally looking to provide clear, plain language directions on what is and is not acceptable to be published through the game.
Until these changes come in, my official recommendation is that any creations you publish do not infringe on any copyright or otherwise include language or imagery that is not suitable for an audience of all ages. We'll have more comprehensive guidelines soon, but for now the EULA states the following : . . . . . . .
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The people creating these levels aren't making money off of these levels based off of other things, but the developers of LBP technically are.
These levels aren't technically made by the developers of LBP, but they are still a part of LBP, so it's sort of like the developers are making money off of these levels.
I think that's the reason behind this. I could be wrong, though.
And yet in Spore EXACT replica of Tie fighters, pokémon, populer monuments are being build. Why?? Because its fun and sometimes it can even be original trying your hardest to recreate something.
All in all, it's just for fun.
Speaking of which the commercials lied. LBP is not fun if we get our hard work deleted. Soo.....I don't know why bendy straws exist.
1. The Spore developers haven't gotten around to "filtering" yet, but are planning to do so.
2. The LBP developers are being extra careful with trying not to get into any legal trouble.
3. The Spore developers are being extra risky(lazy) with trying to avoid legal trouble.
My money's on number 2, personally.
The other thing is about "moderation". Look at the youtube model, they've avoided many legal issues by taking a hands off approach to moderation "if it is reported, we will take it down." By actively establishing you are filtering and providing moderation, you have greater liability risks.
Creating levels that are parodies of other games, causes those other games' devs to be able to say that Levels within LBP are "stealing" their stuff, and presenting a competition to them through using their own stuff.
Reading other responses from Sam leads me to believe most, if not all, of the levels taken down because of copyright, is because it copied a game which can then make LBP responsible for "competing" with that game by using that game's stuff.
Beside its not like most can be proved as copyright violations, they aren't taking anything from those properties. Just representing them in a weird way.
Boy my hype for this game died quite a bit -_-
I like new levels and storylines, not always the same ol' LBP version of every game known to man
It's like I said in the source, surely people don't think that if you take away game levels, that there's no more creativity to explore, right? There's LOTS to do and have fun with.
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