Do we need commercial rights to enter the contest? (Updated with Permission List!)

Tommy Gun · 2014-06-04T01:09:02+0900

UPDATE: We've come to the conclusion that you probably need commercial rights, and either way you should contact each resource creator individually. Official response on page two, here, agrees with this. Of course the RTP and any "DLC"/resource packs you buy from Enterbrain is legal (if used with RM). If you contact any resource creators, please post their responses in this thread and they will be added here. Here are the responses we have so far: Himeworks: Special purpose licenses can be granted to use any script for the purposes of the contest, since what you're buying is tools that will allow you to spend more time making your game, rather than making the tools for your game. The license can be obtained for $20. Click to expand... $20 gets you a license to use ALL of her scripts, but for this contest ONLY. If you decide to sell your game you will have to purchase another license. Celianna has given permission through her status feed: Celianna said Yes you can use my tiles in the Indie Game Contest, free of use, with the exception that if you win any of the prizes, you must purchase a commercial license for the resources you have used. Click to expand... Scythuz posted this in his resource thread. Scythuz said Just to clarify, there's no need to ask permission to use my music in the indie game contest. I won't count it as commercial use, so worry about making your games, not asking permission. Click to expand... Lunarea gave permission on her blog. Lunarea said Yes, you may use my resources (both from this blog and from the official forums) in your entries for the 2014 Indie Game contest at no charge. Please make sure that you're crediting me as well as any other people/companies mentioned in my credits and TOS. I would also appreciate a link to my blog. Click to expand... ------------------------------------- Original Post: I'm starting a new thread because a lot of people are asking this, and I think we need a clear explanation. On the contest page it says we only need non-commercial rights. So most scripts are fine as long as we give credit. But the prize money seems to make this a commercial project (if we win, that is. Even if we're not going to sell our game). From what I've read if you make ANY money off of something, it counts as commercial -- so even a trailer for a film, because the film makes money, the trailer counts as commercial. A youtube video of your cat, with ads on it, is commercial, and so on. Can someone explain?

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