Post by victorgrant on Feb 13, 2018 7:21:50 GMT -5
Hello,
Today we received a cease-and-desist contact from a lawyer at Konami regarding your game, "Duel Monsters Unlimited". This issue is with using trademarked content from "Yu-Gi-Oh". I explained that BYOND only acts as a portal and we have no true control over the game; however, we do have control over it's advertisement through the hub. As such, to avoid legal repercussions we will have to suppress this entry (to my dismay, as it is one of the more popular games) shortly. I don't know if they will be contacting you separately regarding the game itself-- obviously we don't have control over this.If you are to continue hosting DWU, you should inform your users about the removal of the hub entry and do the broadcasting announcements of the game on your own site. Alternatively, you may want to edit the offending content (if that is possible) and rename the hub. We could probably transfer over existing scores and medals so long as the new entry does not pose any trademark threats.
I figured this would happen eventually with a fangame, and am sorry you are the first. Hopefully you'll be able to come up with a workaround that doesn't get anyone in trouble. I already requested of Konami to allow this to slide, since you aren't hurting anyone (and in fact are probably just promoting their brand), but they would not budge. At any rate, I'll try to buy some time while you figure out how to deal with this.
Thanks
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Today we received a cease-and-desist contact from a lawyer at Konami regarding your game, "Duel Monsters Unlimited". This issue is with using trademarked content from "Yu-Gi-Oh". I explained that BYOND only acts as a portal and we have no true control over the game; however, we do have control over it's advertisement through the hub. As such, to avoid legal repercussions we will have to suppress this entry (to my dismay, as it is one of the more popular games) shortly. I don't know if they will be contacting you separately regarding the game itself-- obviously we don't have control over this.If you are to continue hosting DWU, you should inform your users about the removal of the hub entry and do the broadcasting announcements of the game on your own site. Alternatively, you may want to edit the offending content (if that is possible) and rename the hub. We could probably transfer over existing scores and medals so long as the new entry does not pose any trademark threats.
I figured this would happen eventually with a fangame, and am sorry you are the first. Hopefully you'll be able to come up with a workaround that doesn't get anyone in trouble. I already requested of Konami to allow this to slide, since you aren't hurting anyone (and in fact are probably just promoting their brand), but they would not budge. At any rate, I'll try to buy some time while you figure out how to deal with this.
Thanks
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