Hello,
As the title says I want to know how I can secure my game from being copied. Now i’m not sure if ROBLOX already has an system for this and I know that you can’t copy games.
But what I mean is something else from that. Cause I don’t want anyone steal my idea since my game is in development and I have some developers with we working on it but they only know my idea and they can just run of with it.
Anyone got a solution?
You cannot copyright an idea, only technologies, brand names or precise products.
Which means they will have full rights to copy your game idea, concept and all aspects.
I personally find that very fair and motivating for the platform, to prevent docile monopolies. Just make it better than everyone else and update constantly.
You gave your secrets, so it’s now public. Plus your ideas were never purely original after all, they’re inspired by many other creations.
I see what you mean. But one thing I don’t understand is you said
And how do you know my ideas were never purely original? (Which they are)
Well, you’re born in a society being taught by everyone else, learning stuff from everyone else, that’s how your ideas were created slowly. You can’t just say: I never learned anything from anyone, I woke up without knowing anything and I came up with this idea.
It’s not a ripoff, just combinations and innovations is what I call them.
Abstract properties like ideas are intellectual property, and IP theft is still against the law, it’s just going to be difficult to prove someone stole a Roblox game idea though. Unless given express written consent no, OP’s team does not have full rights to the project’s IP and digital assets, and if they were to copy anything into their own game OP could issue a DMCA takedown request to Roblox.
Your idea can be influenced by previous ideas, and still be completely original: if you were the first one to introduce juggling while riding on a bicycle, you neither have to be the originator of juggling nor of the bicycle… only that they influenced your idea of combining both.
You cannot do this unless you made the idea into a game on another platform and messaged ROBLOX about the issue.
Game ideas are neither copyrightable nor intellectual property, what classifies as either is the specific execution of that idea. There would not be a very large line of games to play if an idea is copyrightable because you could prevent the base game design from ever being done by anyone, even something as simple as a first person shooter team deathmatch game (to which many exist).
Obligatory IANAL and you should speak to a legal professional for help regarding copyright law.