Paying Royalties.

[MattNJ]

Do you have to pay royalties to RPG Maker if you want to copyright and sell your game?

 

[EternalShadow]

No

 

[Wavelength]

No.

Also, registered Copyrights aren't strictly required on creative works in the US and some other countries - as long as you have proof that you're the author of a work, you retain a lot of copyright privileges over it.

 

[Warpmind]

Obviously, external resources such as scripts, music, graphics etc. may have some royalty demand attached - but mostly, merely crediting the source will be enough. (In some cases, a copy of the game as well.)

 

[Clord]

Obviously, external resources such as scripts, music, graphics etc. may have some royalty demand attached - but mostly, merely crediting the source will be enough. (In some cases, a copy of the game as well.)

I feel that copy of the game is more RPG Maker community thing. Truly professional level people rather take the money that they can buy the stuff they want.

 

[Warpmind]

I feel that copy of the game is more RPG Maker community thing. Truly professional level people rather take the money that they can buy the stuff they want.

Yeah, I was mostly thinking of the Master Script List and Steam Workshop resources and the like.

Naturally, the DLCs that are paid-for are already paid for, so that simplifies things a little.

 

[MattNJ]

No.

Also, registered Copyrights aren't strictly required on creative works in the US and some other countries - as long as you have proof that you're the author of a work, you retain a lot of copyright privileges over it.

Do you retain full copyright privilages over your idea?

 

[Wavelength]

Do you retain full copyright privilages over your idea?

In theory, yes.  From Wikipedia:

Copyright Law in the United States: Before 1989, the use of a copyright notice – consisting of the copyright symbol (©, the letter C inside a circle), the abbreviation "Copr.", or the word "Copyright", followed by the year of the first publication of the work and the name of the copyright holder – was part of U. S. statutory requirements.[24][25] Several years may be noted if the work has gone through substantial revisions. The proper copyright notice for sound recordings of musical or other audio works is a sound recording copyright symbol (℗, the letter P inside a circle), which indicates a sound recording copyright, with the letter P indicating a "phonorecord". Similarly, the phrase All rights reserved was once required to assert copyright.In 1989 the United States enacted the Berne Convention Implementation Act, amending the 1976 Copyright Act to conform to most of the provisions of the Berne Convention. As a result, the use of copyright notices has become optional to claim copyright, because the Berne Convention makes copyright automatic.[26] However, the lack of notice of copyright using these marks may have consequences in terms of reduced damages in an infringement lawsuit – using notices of this form may reduce the likelihood of a defense of "innocent infringement" being successful.[27]