Hi Creators,
Today, over 90% of our Marketplace items are community-created. Since 2019, we have seen many innovative creations from the community, but unfortunately, a small percentage of these items have been copies or near-copies of Roblox-created Limiteds.
We share your concerns about this and are hard at work to find a solution. To start, we want to communicate our policy prohibiting these copies and what we plan on doing in the future to prevent copies of these items from being published in the Marketplace.
Our guidelines and policies prohibit the copying of Roblox items
Creators in the UGC Program must adhere to our Community Standards, Terms of Use, and Marketplace Requirements which prohibit creating items that are overly similar to existing items.
If Creators violate these policies and guidelines by creating copies of existing items, we reserve the right to remove them from the UGC Program. In addition, all of the Creator’s items created while they were a part of the UGC program will be removed and taken off-sale.
To date, we have removed all violating content that has been reported to us and will continue to do so.
We reduce the financial incentives for people to copy
Once an item goes on sale in the Marketplace, it can still be removed if it is reported and fails to comply with our guidelines. Roblox will refund anyone who had the item removed from their inventory, and cancel any pending payments for that item to remove the financial incentives for bad actors to keep copying items.
We also have a 30-day escrow hold for each purchase where Roblox holds the commission from the sale of your items for 30 days starting from the date of sale. If your item is removed for copying Roblox-created Limiteds, you will not receive any of the earnings held in this escrow.
For more information on how to report content that violates our policies, please review our Community Standards.
Improving our ability to detect copies
In the coming weeks, we will roll-out improvements that will help us better recognize copies of Roblox-created Limiteds before they are published to the Marketplace. We expect this will drastically reduce the number of copies in our Marketplace and improve our ability to identify violators to remove from our program.
Please stay tuned as we continue to share updates on our efforts in these areas.
Ready to apply to the UGC Program?
Please submit your application through this link or learn more about the UGC Program through the Marketplace Requirements and Publishing to Marketplace pages of the Creator Hub.
Thank you.
