EA Owns your work now, good or bad?
Zazazu:
I didn't read the whole EULA that came with Spore, so I'm just going off what was quoted above. However.
"In exchange for use of the Software, and to the extent that your contributions through use of the Software give rise to any copyright interest, you hereby grant EA an exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, fully transferable and sub-licensable worldwide right and license to use your contributions in any way and for any purpose in connection with the Software and related goods and services, including the rights to reproduce, copy, adapt, modify, perform, display, publish, broadcast, transmit, or otherwise communicate to the public by any means whether now known or unknown and distribute your contributions without any further notice or compensation to you of any kind for the whole duration of protection granted to intellectual property rights by applicable laws and international conventions."
This doesn't say anything about restricting the user from creating content or any products that could be seen as reverse engineering. What is says is that they hold the copyright to anything made with their product (nothing new), that they can do pretty much anything with it (not really new, but more explicit) and that they don't have to pay you.
The rest is your basic "our word is law" and examples.
SJActress:
I think the whole reason behind this EULA is they are covering their asses for taking your creations and putting them in other peoples' games, which is what they've always said they'd be doing.
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