Cerulean Spark (ceruleanspark)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-13 08:07:55 UTC
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@pony To quote one of Hasbros own C&D's (The one sent to shards of equestria) “Fan fiction” does not constitute any of the potentially protected fair use purposes, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. That you call your work “parody” does not make it so, nor does it mean that it does not infringe Hasbro and Wizards’ copyrights and trademarks. In fact, your use of the MY LITTLE PONY® and MAGIC: THE GATHERING® elements is not parody at all. Under well-settled law, a parody comments in some way on the copyrighted or trademarked work that it is copying. Your game, on the other hand, does nothing of the sort. Rather you simply use Hasbro’s and Wizards’ intellectual property to create a game from these characters and elements in order to “avoid the drudgery in working up something fresh.”
