Okay. I understand that Square Enix has the legal right to protect their intellectual properties. I can even understand that they want to make sure that there are certain things they don't want themselves or certain consumers to be seeing in terms of content.
But, a fan film (and one based on Final Fantasy 7 no less) is what gets their legal team in a rage?
Companies like Square Enix and even Hasbro could stand to learn the difference between someone stealing the characters made under their home studios and passing them off as their own versus those who are merely paying tribute to their works as their way of saying "thank you" by making fan films, abridged series videos on YouTube and games made by the fans.
This is just as bad as Hasbro shutting down 2 Friendship is Magic based fan games and even suing one fan of said 4th My Little Pony incarnation for the simple act of making plush toys and other memorabilia.
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Okay. I understand that Square Enix has the legal right to protect their intellectual properties. I can even understand that they want to make sure that there are certain things they don't want themselves or certain consumers to be seeing in terms of content.
But, a fan film (and one based on Final Fantasy 7 no less) is what gets their legal team in a rage?
Companies like Square Enix and even Hasbro could stand to learn the difference between someone stealing the characters made under their home studios and passing them off as their own versus those who are merely paying tribute to their works as their way of saying "thank you" by making fan films, abridged series videos on YouTube and games made by the fans.
This is just as bad as Hasbro shutting down 2 Friendship is Magic based fan games and even suing one fan of said 4th My Little Pony incarnation for the simple act of making plush toys and other memorabilia.