The New Playstation Network TOS Hates You

“You authorize and license SCEA a royalty free and perpetual right to use, distribute, copy, modify, display, and publish your User Material for any reason without any restrictions or payments to you or any third parties.”

Sony has updated their PSN terms of service obviously in anticipation of the release of Little Big Planet. While I think the above TOS quote is corporate bullshit speak, I will say this about the matter.

First, I don’t think users should make money off of Little Big Planet content. I wouldn’t enjoy paying for user generated content and that has not been my intention when planning on purchasing the game.

Secondly, Sony must never ever sell user generated content back to the community even if they compensate the creator.

Thirdly, If Sony does use your work in LBP or in other PSN stuff, you should at least have attribution rights and Sony should note that you’re the creator.

Often times I think that companies like Sony tend to forget that the internet exists, and that fans of Sony don’t want this kind of behavior from a company that has been sinister in the past and have since appeared to have cleaned up.

We’ll see what happens with LBP and I’ll give Sony the benefit of the doubt, but I hope they don’t do anything stupid.

We’ll see.

Thanks to I Have The Princess for pointing the new TOS out.