Dreams Devs Looking to Improve Trending Tab to Highlight More Original Content

The Trending category in Dreams tends to favor remakes and viral content. And Media Molecule says it will continue to improve this to give original content better exposure.

[AspiringProGenji]

I mean memes are life, but I would be annoyed with highlights full of memes. I hope they make a tab or a session only for memes tho

[MasterCornholio]

Maybe you can use copy right to take them down. But there are plenty of people who still make original content so there really isn't a need to.

[rainslacker]

It's kind of on the owner of the copyright to say they dont approve. Sony could be preemptive to avoid problems, but generally, it's better if the hosting service doesnt try and decide what is appropriate or not. While I'm sure some of these remakes arent going to fly in the long run, and Nintendo is known to shut them down fast, it doesnt mean that some content owners wouldnt approve of these fan made games.

Some of it may depend on the extent of the remake. Sometimes it's just small.parts of a game, or things that could fall within fair use. For instance, a meme, created with creator made assets, isnt necessarily a copyright violation. But on those things, sony is likely to take the youtube path of caution to protect itself, over fighting for the creators.

If they dont, then I'd actually be pretty impressed, and it would serve as a good exercise to define fair use more clearly when it comes to user created content, as the laws are up to interpretation, despite being somewhat specific at the same time

[Atom666]

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...

[rainslacker]

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.

[Atom666]

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!

[rainslacker]

I'm pretty confident that Nintendo knows what's going on in dreams. As of now, they probably don't want to be too fervent to stop these things. Plus, it's not uncommon for Nintendo to wait and do these things down the line, usually when there is a lot more investment into such things.

[IamTylerDurden1]

I'm not sure why Sony is so scared of promoting this game?

I understand that there are copyright fears, but remakes are what trends.

I posted that Tsushima clip to Twitter and it's pushing 400k views.

If it's a remake of a Sony IP there should be no issue.

I sent the Tsushima video to Shu, Sucker Punch, Goldfarb ect and NONE of them even liked it let alone retweeted or commented. Meanwhile my Tweet is getting more pub than many SIE promotional ads for Dreams.

It baffles me as to why someone like Goldfarb who is community manager for SP wouldn't get in on it. No response to my DMs either.

That video blew up with no help from the big guys. Hopefully us common folk can continue our guerrilla marketing in hopes that this incredible game will succeed. We do it for free because we believe in the product, your welcome Sony.