Mar
24th
2013
Hasbro and their Cease and Desist thing · 3:46pm Mar 24th, 2013
Hasbro has been putting out Cease and Desist orders on huge things in the community like the Mane6's Fighting is Magic or this FiM Online I found. I actually have to wonder... why? They aren't for profit and are made with custon items, absolutely zero things stolen, and the rights of MLP belonging to Hasbro are mentioned.
I find the fact that there was no provocation to be the real concern here. What made them close it? The only thing used is the characters and locations, but if that is the case, that gets rid of everything not licensed by them, which includes fanfiction, fan art, fan games, Ponychan, Equestria Daily, Fimfiction... Everything about the show would have to come down. So why is Hasbro removing huge projects like these?
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MarcusFirehaven · 453 views
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The reason they have to isn't really well put out there, no one can really give you a true answer about it.
I think it's because Mane 6 broke their agreement with Hasbro, releasing game footage when they weren't supposed to.
FiW broke copyright.
FiM Online also broke copyright.
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What is FiW?
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Friendship is Witchcraft.
It was a comedy thing where they took an MLP episode and just replaced the audio with their own stuff.
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Friendship is Witchcraft is parody, which protects them from the law in this case. So them getting sued there. They should be good.
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It may be a parody, but they literally took the entire visual art and replaced the audio to call it their own, that is against American copyright laws.
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Good point, but is it for-profit? Are they being paid? Mane6 wasn't for-profit.
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Mane 6 wasn't for profit but they had a deal with Hasbro to use the CGI animations of the mane six characters, the contract had a few things and one of the rules to keep the contract was to not release any footage of the game. They did, so the contract became null and void.
942788 That's news to me. Where did you hear it?
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That was like a year ago, I don't recall where I heard it.
1952234 So I guess it's good news for other projects as long as they abide within the bounds of whatever permission was granted?
Also, it'd sure be a sour day if this site were to get the letter, but a new one would doubtlessly pop up in its place. :/