Fair use won't help many of these creations. Anytime you tread even remotely close to "clone" territory, the cease and desists will be coming.

I give it only a few months before we start seeing the takedown notices come flying. We know Sony's got a lot of attorneys, but they won't be able to do much to help them when something as vague as a fan made game having the same "look and feel" is enough to justify a copyright claim.

If this is a fight Sony wants to have, I appreciate them for it. They'll lose, but it'd be nice to watch. Now I say that as someone who doesn't own the IP being used here. They probably won't appreciate it as much...

Yeah. I think that maybe right now some light tribute or practice work isn't going to garner too much trouble for the creators. But eventually, some creators are going to push it with more content within those creations, and at that point, it goes from fair use derivative work, or fan appreciation, to production level work, which companies may feel threatened by, and even if they don't care too much, they have to protect their trademark, and not show signs of duplicity in what is allowed where. Some companies take a no exceptions outlook on such things....like Nintendo...others may lay out ground rules for what they consider acceptable. But, in the end, these companies are always within their rights to issue a cease and desist, or in the case of dreams, probably file a DMCA claim with Sony(like you see on YouTube). It would then be up to the creator to defend why it's valid content, which most won't, or can't afford, and Sony is likely to stay on the side of protecting their own ass from potential lawsuits for hosting the content....like what YouTube does.

I don't see Sony fighting too hard for the creators on this. They are part of the industry that would be issuing these claims, and they don't want to upset a lot of their partners by trying to make them look bad.

People will have to just expect this to happen eventually, but you know that Sony's probably still going to get grief for it. I also think that some people don't recognize when copyright is actually being infringed, and immediately jump to the side of the creators as if they are innocent and should be allowed to do whatever they want. Unfortunately, it just doesn't happen like that in the real world, nor should it. There's a fine line between fair use and infringement. If people want to make such things for their own use, have at it. Heck, even use it in a portfolio. Just don't post it publicly with a bunch of self marketing to draw attention to it.

The saving grace for some may be that Nintendo is so backwards sometimes, it may take them awhile to even notice...

Get your mario clones in while you can guys!

and they're gaging that by making a level in a dead game?

It's a great engine to quickly prototype and publicly test a game concept. Honestly, had they approached the business model differently, Dreams could have been very successful... They could have made their money from the creators, not just off game sales, if they'd made a system that lets you pay a fee to export your games/levels so that they are playable on any PlayStation even if you don't have Dreams installed. That would have opened up an additional revenue stream that would have made the game profitable. Charge an export fee, then take a cut of each sale for the games created... it gives financial incentive for developers to invest serious time into making games in that engine, which increases the quality of the projects made within it. Dreams was just ahead of its time.

Yup. Should be on psvr2.

It should have had kb/m support and no mp implementation was a mistake ..... I miss lbp , they should have just stuck with that franchise . If they didn't kill the servers it would still be installed on my ps , it was a game of endless fun