Warning To Developers, Watch Out For Copyrights!

***wraggster*** · May 4th, 2006, 00:13

The admin of PSP3D posted a warning that i feel our visitors and developers should also take notice of especially because the PSP scene is being watched by the mainstream sites, heres what he posted:

<blockquote>Recently there has been a surge of homebrew clones of popular PC games to the PSP. Clones such as StarCraft, Age of Empires, Red Alert, and more. Remember, developer companies of these games still have active copyrights on their games. Ripping sprites from their games and using them in your own homebrew port is illegal, regardless of what coding of the backend is like (obviously homebew code since the source for these games has not been released yet). Also, using the game's name in your port, even with different in-game sprites, is also illegal. So you could have a clone of say StarCraft, call it StarCraft PSP, and use different sprites as well, but you would still be producing illegal material. </blockquote>

I actually agree with the PSP3D Admin, i think its great that clones are made but use your head and name it different and keep away from copyrighted stuff where possible.

Whats your views on this subject ?

**pspfan** · May 4th, 2006, 00:24

I couldn't agree more. I remember someone (I think it was PSPdemon...?) was making a Halo mod for Iris and he had to stop because it violated copyrights. However, I am all for the clones as long as they don't rip sprites and names. You can still name thinks pretty close, though...

**CoderX** · May 4th, 2006, 00:44

Yes i have been taking that in to thought, my next release will be called
Age of Empire in stead of the origional name

And at the moment all sprites are being redrawn, thank you

**Cooe14** · May 4th, 2006, 00:46

CoderX how bout Age of the Empire's ? Age of Empire sounds kinda weird.

**Gene** · May 4th, 2006, 00:48

or "Age Of EmpireZ"?

**Emeriastone** · May 4th, 2006, 01:11

The Homebrew community does not need a lawsuit brought against any of it's members.

Lawsuits would certainly stunt the growth of any homebrew development.

**moogster66** · May 4th, 2006, 01:21

Maybe if Sony and some of the other software companies would make decent games for the psp, we would not need homebrew. Now don't get me wrong, I love the great work that our beloved coders have produced. They have so miuch more skill and patience than I could ever have. And I love the PC ports of the older titles, bringing them back to life. But maybe some of the big boys could produce some quality titles. And we wouldn't RELY on hombrew!