What about in the instance where you wanted to make a game on Roblox and then at a later date decide to do a remake off site and upload it onto something like steam? would things like the storyline, models, animations, ect be able to be claimed by Roblox? I think Battle Bit did this but I dont know how much in common it has with the original Roblox game, even the art style is like Roblox but more so Unturned of which was supposed to originally be a Roblox game.
As far as US copywrite law goes, you are legally allowed to and encouraged to use the @Copywrite (year) on work you created.
This actually serves as a marker for when you created the property and assists in determining things such as “first creator”.
Say you create something and I created the exact same thing, but I created mine first, I actually have the copywrite. However, there is a certain leniency that is circumstantially allowed to those who can both prove they created original works, however, it mostly goes to the person who made it first as a general rule.
Registering your copywrite serves as proof of when you registered it and provides a place for you to upload your supporting proof of creation. There are certain bonuses you get for registering your copywrite, but it’s important to note that any creator automatically owns the copywrite for the work they created upon creation, unless under required legal circumstances that right is transferred to someone else, such as through a legal contract or the work-for-hire doctrine.
So if you create something that is your work, you own the copywrite, and you can legally display that copywrite for your work. It is important to note that you must own the right to claim copywrite ownership on work you add this notation to though. To put the logo on something you didn’t create and you don’t otherwise own the copywrite to would be copywrite fraud and is illegal in any DMCA-compliant country that honors intellectual property rights.
If you create a game on Roblox, you own the copyright for your creations.
There are specific license terms for the IP Roblox owns though.
So say you create a Roblox-based game, then you want to make it a Steam game and develop it in Unity.
Your art and everything you created for Roblox can be re-used.
Roblox avatars, any Roblox music, models, or essentially anything that Roblox made, you can’t use off their platform, as you have no license to do so.
So you’d have to replace anything that reflects the Roblox IP with your own content.
Other than that, it’s your copywrite for your work, you can do what you want with it.
This stuff is actually covered in the Roblox Terms of Use.
Fair Warning though, even if you stop developing the Roblox version of the game, Roblox owns an unlimited license to it, and there are no protections any longer that the content you created won’t later get reproduced by AI for another user who would then be allowed to use it under Roblox’s license, but once again, that license since Roblox AI created it would not transfer off the platform as it is not your copywritten work, as you can’t own the copywrite to what AI creates.
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