Creators can now use the new “Report Unoriginal Promotional Assets” tool in Creator Portal to report islands that have a thumbnail, title or description that duplicates or is very similar to their own original creations.
Reports will be carefully reviewed, and when creators are found violating ‘Fortnite Island Creator Rule 1.6: Be Original’ https://www.fortnite.com/news/fortnite-island-creator-rules, they will be subject to immediate monetization penalties, with more significant consequences for repeat offenses, including permanent account bans.
This policy only applies to content originally created for the Fortnite Ecosystem. Only team owners can report violations or appeal rulings against their islands, and reports cannot be submitted on behalf of other creators. The form to submit a report is located in the new Support section of Creator Portal.
Hey, we’ve gotten some questions about how we’re evaluating content so we wanted to shed some light on the process:
When we receive a report we use machine learning to review the live metadata from the submitter’s island and run it against all the metadata in our database to identify potential matches (along with the original publish date so we can account for who was first to platform).
From there, the report is handed off for human review by a highly specialized team of moderators who are provided with clear guidelines and trained to handle this, and other IP-related moderation decisions.
As for genres, we will only be actioning islands that have notable similarities beyond the name of the genre. Adding generic terms like great, awesome, mega etc. to a genre type wouldn’t be enough to satisfy this criteria.
So, for example, neither “Great Red vs. Blue” nor “Amazing Red vs. Blue” would be protectable while “Peely’s Red vs. Blue” may be.