SONIC UNREAL but, I need some help!

[ZacD]

@darthviper107;531216

Not just ripped assets, but if you make your own assets on an existing IP and try to use them without permission then that’s also illegal. For example if you made your own Sonic models and assets and released a free game with them it would still be illegal because it uses their design for the characters.
You can make something similar, but you have to change the design enough.

@Dodgin;531312

Also, making a Sonic game is literally a direct infringement of copyright of a company with millions and millions of dollars.

Could a sonic fan game be considered a private study? Maybe? From the fair use wikipedia page "The law, which took effect in May 2008, permits the fair use of copyrighted works for purposes such as private study, research, criticism, review, news reporting, quotation, or instruction or testing by an educational institution.”