That's what LBP is all about though. Funny, eh? :(

Well they did that in City of Heroes too.... so not surprising.

This is outrageous.

Copyright law in the US is dreadful. It was mostly rewritten in the 1990s to make it possible for fat, lazy, unoriginal corporate pigopolists to overcharge consumers. Very little money ends up in the hands of creators, it's all about giant monopolies.

Remember, LBP levels aren't being sold for money. There's no money being exchanged and no commercial activity to prosecute. It's about creativity and homage to other creators.

Remember, these are the same $%@%#$ corporate @$#!#@%ers who gave us the Wall Street Bubble, the housing crash, credit swaps and derivatives, the whole neoliberal swindle. They believe in only one thing: We Create, You Pay, and Pay, and Pay, and Pay Some More. If they could abolish the word "share", they would.

What LBP needs is a generalized Fair Use provision - copy anything you want, but you can't sell stuff you didn't create.

Oh... if Marvel took this to court they would lose.

I mean with the sackpeople you could just claim it's "parody".

They just aren't willing to go to bat for the consumers... after all marvel still is fairly important when it comes to games.  Marvel characters can sell a lot of stuff.

It's like when they take down user created stuff about MGS and other games they own so they can release downloadble packs.

Wouldn't be too surprising.

I think it's coming. Companies are far too greedy.

I should add I have no problem with occasional commercial downloads and bonuses, or with moderation per se (some policing is always needed, because people can be obnoxious). But LBP is setting the pace for other creative game-worlds, because it's the first blockbuster console game to really get user content right.

I'm just getting started in LBP, but the thing is a delight, an amazing triumph of game design. Something this good must absolute NOT be spoiled by the the shambling killer zombie virus of privatization/copyright fundamentalism.

Sony's lawyers really need to figure something out, maybe amend the user agreement or something. Care and feed the commons, and the commons will feed you.

The Lego game creators have to pay for the right to use the IP even though the characters barely resemble the original IP. Is it fair they have to pay the license yet the LBP people do not?

This.

I'd agree 100% with you, but MM shouldn't be held responsable for copyright infringements "created" by the users of the game. If anything, the guys who make the questionable levels should pay for the right.

That said, I would like to think that KylieDog is right on the money. Once companies see the potential some of these level design packs could have; hello microtrasaction money bath!

Of course, they'd be even happier if there were more LBP copies out there first, i'm sure.