why is the scratch team refusing to add copyrights to all scratch projects

Because scratch is made for kids and falls under the educational catagory meaning technically any project shared is for educational purposes, educating people on a subject isn't a fair use of copyright. Copyright also only applies if one is attempting to make money off of their project that recreates or uses assets from already copyrighted sources.

-Almations- wrote:

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Because scratch is made for kids and falls under the educational catagory meaning technically any project shared is for educational purposes, educating people on a subject isn't a fair use of copyright. Copyright also only applies if one is attempting to make money off of their project that recreates or uses assets from already copyrighted sources.

why does scratch fall under the education category

crazyfrogcat wrote:

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why does scratch fall under the education category

It was intended to teach computer science, it's not a game engine or anything like that

crazyfrogcat wrote:

-Almations- wrote:

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Because scratch is made for kids and falls under the educational catagory meaning technically any project shared is for educational purposes, educating people on a subject isn't a fair use of copyright. Copyright also only applies if one is attempting to make money off of their project that recreates or uses assets from already copyrighted sources.

why does scratch fall under the education category

Scratch was made and stated legally to be made for education, any project on the platform can be labelled as such due to this.

-Almations- wrote:

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crazyfrogcat wrote:

-Almations- wrote:

(#2)
Because scratch is made for kids and falls under the educational catagory meaning technically any project shared is for educational purposes, educating people on a subject isn't a fair use of copyright. Copyright also only applies if one is attempting to make money off of their project that recreates or uses assets from already copyrighted sources.

why does scratch fall under the education category

Scratch was made and stated legally to be made for education, any project on the platform can be labelled as such due to this.

does that mean a project will never be copyrighted and scratch is better for school's than Roblox

crazyfrogcat wrote:

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does that mean a project will never be copyrighted and scratch is better for school's than Roblox

Of course Scratch is better for schools than Roblox.
Roblox is meant to be a game engine with no educational intent, while Scratch is pretty much meant for educational purposes. Also something bad could happen to the school as Roblox has private messaging and 17+ games.

crazyfrogcat wrote:

-Almations- wrote:

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crazyfrogcat wrote:

-Almations- wrote:

(#2)
Because scratch is made for kids and falls under the educational catagory meaning technically any project shared is for educational purposes, educating people on a subject isn't a fair use of copyright. Copyright also only applies if one is attempting to make money off of their project that recreates or uses assets from already copyrighted sources.

why does scratch fall under the education category

Scratch was made and stated legally to be made for education, any project on the platform can be labelled as such due to this.

does that mean a project will never be copyrighted and scratch is better for school's than Roblox

A project will only be copyrighted if the creator attempts to make money off of it if it contains already copyrighted assets. To answer the second question scratch is made to be ideal in schools, roblox is mostly made for fun.

8to16 wrote:

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crazyfrogcat wrote:

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does that mean a project will never be copyrighted and scratch is better for school's than Roblox

Of course Scratch is better for schools than Roblox.
Roblox is meant to be a game engine with no educational intent, while Scratch is pretty much meant for educational purposes. Also something bad could happen to the school as Roblox has private messaging and 17+ games.

you are right because scratch is so safe but on Roblox has bad games and chat's which can put some children's life in danger right at school so school's block Roblox, and school's don't block scratch (to give more education). also we should get back on topic

-Almations- wrote:

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crazyfrogcat wrote:

-Almations- wrote:

(#5)

crazyfrogcat wrote:

-Almations- wrote:

(#2)
Because scratch is made for kids and falls under the educational catagory meaning technically any project shared is for educational purposes, educating people on a subject isn't a fair use of copyright. Copyright also only applies if one is attempting to make money off of their project that recreates or uses assets from already copyrighted sources.

why does scratch fall under the education category

Scratch was made and stated legally to be made for education, any project on the platform can be labelled as such due to this.

does that mean a project will never be copyrighted and scratch is better for school's than Roblox

A project will only be copyrighted if the creator attempts to make money off of it if it contains already copyrighted assets. To answer the second question scratch is made to be ideal in schools, roblox is mostly made for fun.

school's don't want children copyrighting things there

crazyfrogcat wrote:

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school's don't want children copyrighting things there

Children are still allowed to copyright anything they made (at least it depends on the country)
this extends to Scratch projects

8to16 wrote:

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crazyfrogcat wrote:

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school's don't want children copyrighting things there

Children are still allowed to copyright anything they made (at least it depends on the country)
this extends to Scratch projects

but you don't have copyright button on scratch

crazyfrogcat wrote:

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but you don't have copyright button on scratch

Scratch projects are already copyrighted, under a “some rights reserved” license that requires you to allow remixing

8to16 wrote:

Of course Scratch is better for schools than Roblox.
Roblox is meant to be a game engine with no educational intent, while Scratch is pretty much meant for educational purposes. Also something bad could happen to the school as Roblox has private messaging and 17+ games.

Its fine except for the
17+ games part as you need your
ID verified to play 17+ games I think

8to16 wrote:

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crazyfrogcat wrote:

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does that mean a project will never be copyrighted and scratch is better for school's than Roblox

Of course Scratch is better for schools than Roblox.
Roblox is meant to be a game engine with no educational intent, while Scratch is pretty much meant for educational purposes. Also something bad could happen to the school as Roblox has private messaging and 17+ games.

only 17+ games require your account to be verified

8to16 wrote:

crazyfrogcat wrote:

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does that mean a project will never be copyrighted and scratch is better for school's than Roblox

Of course Scratch is better for schools than Roblox.
Roblox is meant to be a game engine with no educational intent, while Scratch is pretty much meant for educational purposes. Also something bad could happen to the school as Roblox has private messaging and 17+ games.

Oh. So is that why Roblox bans fan games but Scratch doesn't? Because Scratch is technically meant for educational purposes
+ “no educational intent” is false, you can learn a lot about Lua

DifferentDance8 wrote:

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8to16 wrote:

crazyfrogcat wrote:

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does that mean a project will never be copyrighted and scratch is better for school's than Roblox

Of course Scratch is better for schools than Roblox.
Roblox is meant to be a game engine with no educational intent, while Scratch is pretty much meant for educational purposes. Also something bad could happen to the school as Roblox has private messaging and 17+ games.

Oh. So is that why Roblox bans fan games but Scratch doesn't? Because Scratch is technically meant for educational purposes
+ “no educational intent” is false, you can learn a lot about Lua

but fan games are copyright required

crazyfrogcat wrote:

but fan games are copyright required

Yes, in most cases fan games are copyrighted. However, in some cases they might be considered “affectionate parodies” which are parodies which fall under Fair Use.
(good luck trying to explain that to Nintendo though)

DifferentDance8 wrote:

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crazyfrogcat wrote:

but fan games are copyright required

Yes, in most cases fan games are copyrighted. However, in some cases they might be considered “affectionate parodies” which are parodies which fall under Fair Use.
(good luck trying to explain that to Nintendo though)

how are they copyrighted? and you can't explain anything to Nintendo!!!!!!!

DifferentDance8 wrote:

crazyfrogcat wrote:

but fan games are copyright required

Yes, in most cases fan games are copyrighted. However, in some cases they might be considered “affectionate parodies” which are parodies which fall under Fair Use.
(good luck trying to explain that to Nintendo though)

Probably off-topic, but Nintendo has seemingly been okay with Scratch projects. I don't recall any Mario projects getting DMCA'd before. Either Nintendo is not aware of Scratch, or they understand Scratch's educational mission.