Am I allowed to distribute the StarterContent & Characters directory as part of a Demo project?

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I’m currently planning to create a small Demo project for a precompiled Plugin I have developed.
The Demo project would contain an unmodified “StarterContent” & “Characters” directory from the ThirdPerson template and just uses those assets for providing a playable demo world. I would like to distribute the editable Demo level (non baked), for instance as .zip via Discord.

Am I allowed to do this, or would I need to require a pre-check that the audience has already agreed to Epic’s licensing terms like through the official GitHub Epic network?

This case might be covered under 4.b) of the Eula (EULA - Unreal Engine), but I’m not sure.

4 b. Sharing Examples
You may Distribute Examples (including as modified by you) in Source Code or object code to any third party.

An alternative would be, to let the users create a third person project for themselfes, then adding my plugin and do additional set-up work.

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Hey @Naios!

Are you selling your plugin on the Marketplace? If so, generally that is allowed as demo content as outlined in the Marketplace Guidelines " 2.1.e Sample content from Epic Games must not be an integral part of your product, but used for display or example purposes only."

If you are not selling it on the Marketplace specifically however, I would shoot a support ticket to Unreal Marketplace support so you can get some definitive clarification!

I hope the above is the solution you were looking for!

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