Has Sony Gone Too Far “Moderating” LittleBigPlanet?
We all love user-generated content. There’s something magical about being able to adventure into worlds that we crafted alongside our peers with a handful of tools and our imagination. It’s no secret that LittleBigPlanet has capitalized on this communal creativity, offering players a nearly limitless palette of set pieces and objects with which to design their own platforming masterpieces that are as much self-contained games as they are individual levels. It’s no surprise, then, that this massive tool box is capable of pumping out levels and items that look awfully similar to existing intellectual properties which are protected under copyright law. Despite fair use, Sony has decided to take no chances and are banning levels that contain what they believe to be copyrighted material.
