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We hope that somebody out there might be able to help us with the copyright rules for college football. We have of course tried to google it, but do anybody knows what would be ok to include in a game like ours? We are thinking about both the conference names and logos, team names and logos as well as using the real player names.

 

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I was able to find this from the official NCAA about licencing rules

https://www.ncaa.org/championships/marketing/ncaa-licensing-program-faqs#seven

But basically yea, ever since that whole "former NCAA players suing EA" then it's basically where now a days, if you want to make a game with the NCAA, your best bet is to find some generic logos for teams, bowls, etc and then just make the game open to modding where folks who buy the game can download a logo pack from a 3rd party site (such as MEGA) and then just copy/paste the logos into some folder.

Now there also has been recent news too with the NCAA cuz there might be the off chance that players get paid now in college so the open idea to having licence deals would be back open again

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2860384-ea-sports-open-to-bringing-back-ncaa-football-game-after-fair-pay-to-play-law

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Hi

 

We hope that somebody out there might be able to help us with the copyright rules for college football. We have of course tried to google it, but do anybody knows what would be ok to include in a game like ours? We are thinking about both the conference names and logos, team names and logos as well as using the real player names.

 

BR

CTGame DevTeam

 

From my experiences with both the owners of Bowl Bound College Football and DDS College Football , they didn't put themselves at risk. They ended up allowing a site like us to offer customization or mod options to get users there. It would be at arm's length because it is the equivalent of the user just changing the labels themselves. They then allow for the option to change team names and conference names as a feature.

 

That's the best I know about it and it seems to be the least amount of risk.


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Thanks for the answer and it was also what we thought about.

 

So instead of using a lot of time on the data stuff, we will use it on the actual gameplay and then just make everything customizable (like we have already started on).

 

I believe there will be several areas of customization. Team Logos, Conference Logos, Team Fields for the 2D play, if you do map in the players, perhaps randomize their names but have similar attributes.. then all it takes is a playername database replacement... Plenty of things to consider.. people like customization to mod schedules, conferences, etc..


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3 hours ago, historybeast said:

I was able to find this from the official NCAA about licencing rules

https://www.ncaa.org/championships/marketing/ncaa-licensing-program-faqs#seven

But basically yea, ever since that whole "former NCAA players suing EA" then it's basically where now a days, if you want to make a game with the NCAA, your best bet is to find some generic logos for teams, bowls, etc and then just make the game open to modding where folks who buy the game can download a logo pack from a 3rd party site (such as MEGA) and then just copy/paste the logos into some folder.

Now there also has been recent news too with the NCAA cuz there might be the off chance that players get paid now in college so the open idea to having licence deals would be back open again

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2860384-ea-sports-open-to-bringing-back-ncaa-football-game-after-fair-pay-to-play-law

This is the perfect location for downloading the third party mod. We have these forums where we can push it, we are at arms length and we have a downloads section.


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1 hour ago, Chris said:

This is the perfect location for downloading the third party mod. We have these forums where we can push it, we are at arms length and we have a downloads section.

I mean, I can totally get a pack together but I just would need to know where to place it. 

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11 minutes ago, historybeast said:

I mean, I can totally get a pack together but I just would need to know where to place it. 

Right here, http://forums.gmgames.org/files/category/12-mods-graphics-players/


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