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[b]Shards of Equestria Recieves Cease and Desist from Hasbro[/b]: It looks like Shards of Equestria has been hit by those crazy lawyers over at Hasbro's legal department. As is the norm, they are required to protect their property by US law, but the specifics of the cease and desist have not yet been released. Keep an eye on the dev blog for information on what exactly is going to go down. I guess we need to build our own c >http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/08/shards-of-equestria-recieves-cease-and.html http://ur1.ca/a1wsf
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 07:42:04 UTC from Sethisto-
@eqdpony That looks like they should be hit by the Magic guys AND Hasbro. Glad hasbro's noticing something.
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 07:46:27 UTC from web-
@abigpony Hasbro owns Wizards of the Coast. I'm pretty confident this is the entire reason they did anything, I don't believe MLP had anything to do with this.
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 08:02:20 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel @omni I'll reach a bit: Hasbro is awfully nice to the fandom in terms of Copyright. and even though I have not really an idea on how US-Copyright works, I'll say: better then ours...
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 08:08:17 UTC from web-
@hakupony They are. They could shut down so many pony-related sites, kill pony-related fan merchandise but they don't. They're really, really being nice to us, and we should be grateful for that and not take it for granted.
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 08:10:37 UTC from web -
@hakupony Well for starters, you have no obligation to pursue infringers if you don't want to. It will not cause you to lose the copyright.
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 08:12:28 UTC from web
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@abigpony The folks at Hasbro that deal with MLP generally seem pretty chill about things that don't directly profit from use of their copyrights - given Wizards of the Coast are a part of Hasbro, I would not bet against this being mostly that part of the company.
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 08:08:35 UTC from web-
@bitshift It is? I miss the local Wizards of the coast shop, I would always buy these little click toys.. Man those were cool.
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 08:09:29 UTC from web-
@anarchycarcino It is. The tie between the two companies even led into a fun little April Fools' press release back in G3 times: https://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dd/20060401a
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 08:11:29 UTC from web-
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 08:12:47 UTC from web
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@bitshift WotC were pretty cill with D&D as well :)
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 08:13:33 UTC from web-
@hakupony This was by design- they created the OGL after all.
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 08:14:24 UTC from web
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@abigpony And for what it's worth, while I think the reaction might be a little extreme, I can totally see why Wizards would have a problem with realistic, but not genuine, cards being out there.
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 08:10:07 UTC from web
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@eqdpony And once again the comments are filled with people who don't understand US copyright law yet feel qualified to pretend they do anyway. #arglebargle
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 08:01:34 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel I love how they make claims like "companies lose copyright if other people make money on stuff they have copyright on" and "Hasbro is harassing the fandom".
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 08:04:46 UTC from web -
@toksyuryel @omni silly fans are silly
Wednesday, 29-Aug-12 08:07:52 UTC from web
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