User-created LBP levels face unexplained deletion
- Posted November 10th, 2008 at 04:50 EDT by
- 20 Comments
What would Monday morning be without a little tabloid scandal? No, we aren't talking about Obama and stem cell research, or jailed football players - this week's leader is none other than Media Molecule's justly heralded LittleBigPlanet.
According to this thread at the LittleBigPlanet forums, swathes of home-made levels are facing mysterious deletion. Given that the average LittleBigPlanet level can take days to conceive, create and test, many players are getting rather irate.
The culprit may well be this particular clause from Sony's new Electronic User Licensing Agreement (EULA):
"Do not create, transfer, share, send, submit, post or upload any User Generated Content that: Is protected by copyright, trademark, patent or trade secret or subject to third-party proprietary rights, including rights of privacy and publicity - unless you are or have permission from the rightful owner."
Sounds reasonable enough, but on the basis of complaints thus far it's often unclear what exactly constitutes copyright infringement - Sony has neglected to provide details in many cases, though LBP forum moderators have promised a more robust feedback system. Among the casualties are countless Batman levels and that treasured God of War rip-off we saw during beta.
More on this story as it develops.
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Snowspader |
Snowspader- 5:01am GMT - November 10th, 2008
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there.... now nobody can yell 'woot first'.....oh crap...
also, thats sucks about the thing you wrote
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tfg49
- 9:49am GMT - November 10th, 2008
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there is already god of war material within little big planet (i.e. stickers and even a kratos costume) so i dont understand how they could get upset about a god of war level it seems only appropriate and on top of that the god of war level is one of the more creative and original levels out there
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JstuFly |
JstuFly- 11:18am GMT - November 10th, 2008
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"Do not create, transfer, share, send, submit, post or upload any User Generated Content that: Is protected by copyright, trademark, patent or trade secret or subject to third-party proprietary rights, including rights of privacy and publicity - unless you are or have permission from the rightful owner."
And how exactly do they know that we don't have permission?!?! -
Bigdoggy |
Gypscrew- 12:44pm GMT - November 10th, 2008
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oh for god sakes. Stop with these stupid boundries already. The game is downright perfect in every form but if they keep up with these boundries we are going to see less people playing them. enough of the boundries, some of those boundries they put are not even needed. Plus the god of war stages would not even go through in the court of law anyway sense the creator is getting paid for it. Not only that, but there are boundries while going to court that wouldn't justify any of this anyways. this is stupid.
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mikeghtmare |
mikeghtmare- 1:26pm GMT - November 10th, 2008
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@JstuFly, that's got to be the most moronic question I've heard in my life. If you don't have a signed note stating specifically that you have permission then you don't have it, that simple.
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JstuFly |
JstuFly- 2:05pm GMT - November 10th, 2008
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"@JstuFly, that's got to be the most moronic question I've heard in my life. If you don't have a signed note stating specifically that you have permission then you don't have it, that simple."
WTF, what i'm saying is how do they know I don't have a signed note!?
Don't be so ******* quick with the insults!!
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supamariobrotha |
supamariobrotha- 3:51pm GMT - November 10th, 2008
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my level took a full week to make and a week later it's gone but everything in that level was made by me i don't get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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CerealKiller
- 4:31pm GMT - November 10th, 2008
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My 8 yr old daughters level was deleted. SHe's definitely not in the know of who/what to create to equal infringement.
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svtschmidt
- 5:06pm GMT - November 10th, 2008
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I might as well stop creating the level I was making because it obviously will be deleted. If I had known this was going to happen I wouldn't have bought the game. I'm not going to spend countless hours to create a level for them to delete it. Hopefully KZ2 will be good.
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illicious |
illicious- 8:40pm GMT - November 10th, 2008
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Please dont flame me but i dunno much about LBP (ill have to read up on the gameplay a bit). Now "Do not create, transfer, share, send, submit, post or upload". HUH? Do not create? Is this a real time online game or something? How do they know how one would choose to play their own game in their own privacy? You can do almost anything in your privacy but not share it for copyright reasons but this doesnt make any sense to me.
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Blue Pharoh
- 10:52pm GMT - November 10th, 2008
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Wow people, let's not go crazy with the over reactions until things get cleared up. First off, there is a difference between using material for your own private use and publishing something for general use by the public. I think everyone needs to step back and proceed with calmer heads until more of an explanation is forth with. I have yet to publish a level in LBP but I have been checking out some of the levels that were banned but posted on youtube and there are distinct infringements that contributed to said banning. People are spending hours creating their own unique levels and end up violating EULA by awarding players with gift items that would clearly violate copyright for example ipod stickers, trademarked logo's etc.
Perhaps more thought should have gone into preparing for this outcome so there wasn't such mass confusion, escpecially the lack of a feedback system for moderation.
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