Copyright issues when releasing a demo, advice needed

[MikeRPG]

@darthviper107;613414

Most of the time, when you buy an asset they give you the license to use it however you want, you don’t need to credit them with it. To make sure, you’d have to check the user agreement from the place you bought the assets from.

As for other copyrights, you automatically own copyright on something you create without having to do anything–at least that’s how it is in the U.S.
That doesn’t necessarily stop someone from doing stuff but if you find someone doing something then you have legal rights if you want to pursue it.

For the donations stuff, the only thing is that you have to keep in mind that if someone is giving you money in return for access to the game then you will owe royalty to Epic on that money. If you don’t give them anything for the game in return then you don’t owe royalty.

Gumroad essentially lets people donate if they want or just download it for free if they want. I eventually want to be paying UE4 because that means I’m making money but I don’t know if a voluntary payment where they get the game for what they want counts as donation or paying for a product even though access will be free.

The early demo will be simple but fun so I’ll post videos and everything soon. Huge space battle, cool color design, grandiose atmosphere, physics based flight, huge cap ships, small fighters, fun gameplay and AI fleets are all done.