Problem is… I’m in class and everyone looked.

Using licensed items and characters can still be creative — you’re just being silly now. Is MC Hammer’s ‘Can’t Touch This’ not creative because the music was from Rick James? If I wear Hammer-pants and make a video, is it not creative because I didn’t design or create the Hammer-pants myself? If I put up a christmas tree, is it not creative unless I jizzed the seed into my yard and grew the tree myself, watering it with my spit and fertilizing it with my own feces?

I love you with hate, the hate of a 12-inch Beauner.

You hear me Dan!? It SUCKS!

But couldn’t we argue that using a licensed item or character is NOT being creative since the user didn’t technically “create” it themselves.

Eh? Eh?

I hate you with love. Man Mandis love.

Man, what were we thinking? Trying to be creative, pfft.

As for the whole situation in general: Are their more people complaining about their levels being taken down too, or is this just one isolated incident involving the above mentioned person and their level(s)?

If this is just one person’s levels who have been “policed” and removed, then it is not indicative of Sony or Media Molecule’s stance on the content being moderated.

It would be like Jack Thompson saying all kids are shooting each other because of video games, even though each of the shootings were completely separate and did not have anything to do with one another.

The situation sucks, but the fact of the matter is that legally, Sony can take down any god damn thing they want because the user pressed the “X” button when the EULA agreement came up.

And this right here is based off no fact at all: I’m sure these moderation are coming from Sony’s mouth and not Media Molecule.

Creators often take as their raw material an example of popular culture, which they comment on in some way. They may add unlikely subtitles. They may create a fan tribute (positive commentary) or ridicule a cultural object (negative commentary). They may comment or criticize indirectly (parody), as well as directly.

Creators also may make entirely new works solely out of existing ones, like a “video collage”. Mashups (the combining of different materials to compose a new work), remixes (the re-editing of an existing work), and music videos all use this technique of recombining existing material. Other makers achieve similar effects by adding their own new expression (subtitles, images, dialog, sound effects, or animation) to existing works.

Basically, if you are “transforming” the original content in any way, adding to it, critiquing it, using it in a form that was not its original, then you are likely covered under fair use rights. I think anything recreated using 2D objects and interacted with by anthropomorphic hackeysacks would be covered under fair use. I personally think Sony and/or Media Molecule are just being pussies, same as with the removal of the ‘offensive’ song. What they’re doing is culturally ignorant.

I’m pretty sure they delete most of the stuff that is inappropriate. Just don’t offend anyone and have fun. ^_^