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Unfortunately, it’s entirely within their rights to ask Jan to remove his animations. Given the way US law works, they -have- to … if you don’t defend your trademarks, you lose them. I’m no legal expert, but from how I understand the law, if you fail to defend your trademarks and prosecute offenders, you can lose the rights your trademarked material entirely. I wouldn’t be so quick to blame Hasbro—blame US t.m. law.

That being said, I’m grateful that Hasbro allowed the cartoon to exist for as long as it did. I can personally testify that the show’s directors and producers knew about the animation, and were impressed by it. Hasbro (not to be confused with DHX, the cartoon studio hired by Hasbro to create the show) let it slide for a long time; which, frankly, is pretty generous.

Once I tried to upload a cover of a song from “Frozen” — Disney IMMEDIATELY (like, within seconds) flagged the video and made it permanently unavailable for public viewing. Hasbro COULD be doing the same thing. But they’re not. All in all, they’re being pretty generous with their trademarked IPs.

Don’t get me wrong, I really appreciate everyone’s support. But let’s not be too quick to bite the hands that feed us. If they were going after fan-made works with malicious intent, they would have destroyed us all a long time ago. They want us to exist and they want us to produce content—we just can’t “compete” with them. JanAnimations, so far, has been the only artist in the community with the talent and ability to ACTUALLY compete with Pony and produce similar looking content. That’s probably why he was targeted.

For now, that’s all I can say. Maybe after things settle down a bit I’ll post some more commentary — but for now, my only advice is this: let’s all stay chill and just enjoy what we have while we have it, and be grateful for everything we’ve been able to produce and enjoy thus far as a community. :)

Chin up, bronies!!

-Mandopony

Pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter.