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Thanks for giving me credits, really appreciate it! Now as long as you’re crediting and don’t lock the game behind a pay-wall you’ll be fine now (Although you shouldn’t have removed my name from the game).

According to the license, an user can remix the project and distribute it under this condition: as long as he gives credit to the original creator and doesn’t claim the game to be his own (and also sharing the same license, but he at least made the game free unlike other cases). Red wing didn’t follow the attribution conditions, he didn’t give credit and even erased my name on the game swapping by his, claiming my game to be his own.

According to https://creativecommons.org/misuse-of-works/ , I can still send a takedown notice for misuse of the creative commons license (not giving credit & claiming the game to be his own), the user can contest the takedown and give a second look to the material (but there was enough proof that he stole my stuff and removed my name from the thumbnails anyways). It also says to notify the thief before taking action, which is what I and other people did (basically called him out), however I tought that he was inactive since his last posts where posted +100 days ago.

The thief did indeed apologize (“chat GPT write me an apology email for stealing his stuff”), but he still has the other stolen content up on his page (he didn’t only steal my stuff), which it clearly says that he just didn’t want to have consequences since I noticed his stolen work (he could possibly be just a bot aswell).

Even if it says that I can takedown creative commons material, the stuff has been taken down already, so I’m now trying to cancel the DMCA takedown request (I didn’t proceed further that the 1st step because of a paywall but anyways).

Correct me if I’m wrong, I’m still new to this copyright stuff

The stuff stolen from me got succesfully taken down! (or deleted since the user is actually still active, not sure who did it.) However, the google search results still shows the itch.io page on the first row, so how long does it exactly take it to be fully gone? Or it won’t go away unless I do something about it?

About the prevention thing, it looks like that I can’t really protect my Scratch projects from theft aside from putting watermarks like what redonihunter suggested (even though those are still easy to remove just like what Red Wing did on the bitmap thumbnails)… I was thinking into putting a disclaimer on my games saying that any sorts of theft will result on a DMCA takedown (which I actually filled one yesterday, but got stuck at the paywall), but then Scratch would delete my games because of their “embrace remix culture” (let other users copy your projects) policy.

So this means that this could happen again at any moment and left unnoticed for months (probably my fault for not giving enough supervision to this specific game), but the good thing is that the stolen projects got taken down pretty quickly than I expected! (unless they got deleted by Red wing himself)

Forgot to put this in the topic, but my games (that got stolen) can be found on my Scratch profile: https://scratch.mit.edu/users/jackalocked/ . I only released these games on Scratch, and I released them way before they got stolen (I even got to release one of them before 2024).

My games got stolen, is there a way to prevent that?

Hello there. This user https://flamewingforever.itch.io/ stole most of my Scratch games and also many other people’s games!

And the stolen game actually appears first on Google search results, which it’s really awful since most people will think that he’s the actual creator (when he’s a thief) and it really harms my future plans for my ideas since I want to make games outside of Scratch in the future.

Not only that, but he had the audacity to swap my name (jackalocked) with his with no effort (and still kept my mascot, somehow…) and he did the same with the other stolen games too.

Is there a way to prevent this from happening? This is pretty upsetting and it looks like that I’m not the only one that got my stuff stolen neither. I already reported the game page and also got help from other people, but I’m still afraid that he will get away with it and that there will be more game thiefs stealing my stuff. If I can’t prevent my games from getting stolen, is it possible to at least make Google search stop making the stolen games appear on the first rows?

His last post was made 100 days ago, so I’m unsure if he’s active anymore so I can’t call him out, but this is still upsetting since he’s getting clicks from stealing my and other’s work and getting to the google search results!

That’s happening to me right now, this guy https://flamewingforever.itch.io/ stole almost all my Scratch games and the worst part is that they appear as the first result on Google search! He also stole many other games so I really hope that itch io does something about this

Cute game, pretty unique mechanic too.

Very fun to play, and actually sightreadable even at top speeds, nice game!

Really nice! I like the gameplay mechanics, simple yet practical