{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Cerulean Spark (ceruleanspark)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-13 08:07:55 UTC","author_name":"Cerulean Spark (ceruleanspark)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/ceruleanspark","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/2911898","html":"@pony<\/span><\/a><\/span> To quote one of Hasbros own C&D's (The one sent to shards of equestria)\n\n\u201cFan fiction\u201d 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 \u201cparody\u201d does not make it so, nor does it mean that it does not infringe Hasbro and Wizards\u2019 copyrights and trademarks. In fact, your use of the MY LITTLE PONY\u00ae and MAGIC: THE GATHERING\u00ae 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\u2019s and Wizards\u2019 intellectual property to create a game from these characters and elements in order to \u201cavoid the drudgery in working up something fresh.\u201d"}