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I've said it elsewhere, but the hate this woman is getting is unreal. It seems to me, most people (on other sites) don't care as much that she's making buttloads of money, but that she dares to be egotistical while doing so. And I can't help but think of ANOTHER well-known plushie maker, who has a huge ego, but isn't ever called out to this extent. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that he's male and it's a ton of dudes calling White-Dove out, hmmmmmm? Disgusting. But back on topic, I can see where Hasbro is coming from - as much as I hate to say it, Hasbro will probably sit up and take notice if someone is selling thousands of dollars of fan-made merch every month, and they aren't getting a cut of it. It's just good business sense - don't waste lawyer money going after people making $5,10,20 in profit, but go after the people who are making BIG bucks from your intellectual property. And I guess, before now, there were no big bucks in the fandom, so we never really had this problem. I hope White-Dove doesn't have to stop making plushies entirely though, I really like them! Not that I could ever afford them, of course...
Quote from: mlpfan on May 25, 2012, 09:23:35 AMQuote from: StarSwirl05 on May 25, 2012, 09:10:19 AMQuote from: mlpfan on May 25, 2012, 09:02:40 AMit seems hasbro is ok with it as long as the people doing it do not claim to own my little pony and give hasbro credit. hasbro lets it happen as a form of free advertising like the videos on youtube.Not exactly. Numerous episdoes got taken down from YouTube by a copyright claim from Hasbro themselves. Even the commentary videos are getting hit. but they are not taking all of them down. the ones that say"for entertainment purposes only,i do not own my little pony hasbro does" those stay up.They just haven't been caught yet. YouTube can't catch every video the minute they go up.
Quote from: StarSwirl05 on May 25, 2012, 09:10:19 AMQuote from: mlpfan on May 25, 2012, 09:02:40 AMit seems hasbro is ok with it as long as the people doing it do not claim to own my little pony and give hasbro credit. hasbro lets it happen as a form of free advertising like the videos on youtube.Not exactly. Numerous episdoes got taken down from YouTube by a copyright claim from Hasbro themselves. Even the commentary videos are getting hit. but they are not taking all of them down. the ones that say"for entertainment purposes only,i do not own my little pony hasbro does" those stay up.
Quote from: mlpfan on May 25, 2012, 09:02:40 AMit seems hasbro is ok with it as long as the people doing it do not claim to own my little pony and give hasbro credit. hasbro lets it happen as a form of free advertising like the videos on youtube.Not exactly. Numerous episdoes got taken down from YouTube by a copyright claim from Hasbro themselves. Even the commentary videos are getting hit.
it seems hasbro is ok with it as long as the people doing it do not claim to own my little pony and give hasbro credit. hasbro lets it happen as a form of free advertising like the videos on youtube.
Quote from: StarSwirl05 on May 25, 2012, 10:27:18 AMQuote from: mlpfan on May 25, 2012, 09:23:35 AMQuote from: StarSwirl05 on May 25, 2012, 09:10:19 AMQuote from: mlpfan on May 25, 2012, 09:02:40 AMit seems hasbro is ok with it as long as the people doing it do not claim to own my little pony and give hasbro credit. hasbro lets it happen as a form of free advertising like the videos on youtube.Not exactly. Numerous episdoes got taken down from YouTube by a copyright claim from Hasbro themselves. Even the commentary videos are getting hit. but they are not taking all of them down. the ones that say"for entertainment purposes only,i do not own my little pony hasbro does" those stay up.They just haven't been caught yet. YouTube can't catch every video the minute they go up. if you do a search you will see that alot of the epidoes on youtube have been on there for like 8 months to a year or longer.
Quote from: mlpfan on May 25, 2012, 12:47:35 PMQuote from: StarSwirl05 on May 25, 2012, 10:27:18 AMQuote from: mlpfan on May 25, 2012, 09:23:35 AMQuote from: StarSwirl05 on May 25, 2012, 09:10:19 AMQuote from: mlpfan on May 25, 2012, 09:02:40 AMit seems hasbro is ok with it as long as the people doing it do not claim to own my little pony and give hasbro credit. hasbro lets it happen as a form of free advertising like the videos on youtube.Not exactly. Numerous episdoes got taken down from YouTube by a copyright claim from Hasbro themselves. Even the commentary videos are getting hit. but they are not taking all of them down. the ones that say"for entertainment purposes only,i do not own my little pony hasbro does" those stay up.They just haven't been caught yet. YouTube can't catch every video the minute they go up. if you do a search you will see that alot of the epidoes on youtube have been on there for like 8 months to a year or longer.I often see videos get removed after about 2 years but it's copyright infringement nonetheless. People seem to ignore the yellow box at right warning not to upload content they don't own. It's surprising that Hasbro doesn't go after them more quickly but they're probably just busy maintaining their business.
Quote from: StarSwirl05 on May 25, 2012, 12:53:58 PMQuote from: mlpfan on May 25, 2012, 12:47:35 PMQuote from: StarSwirl05 on May 25, 2012, 10:27:18 AMQuote from: mlpfan on May 25, 2012, 09:23:35 AMQuote from: StarSwirl05 on May 25, 2012, 09:10:19 AMQuote from: mlpfan on May 25, 2012, 09:02:40 AMit seems hasbro is ok with it as long as the people doing it do not claim to own my little pony and give hasbro credit. hasbro lets it happen as a form of free advertising like the videos on youtube.Not exactly. Numerous episdoes got taken down from YouTube by a copyright claim from Hasbro themselves. Even the commentary videos are getting hit. but they are not taking all of them down. the ones that say"for entertainment purposes only,i do not own my little pony hasbro does" those stay up.They just haven't been caught yet. YouTube can't catch every video the minute they go up. if you do a search you will see that alot of the epidoes on youtube have been on there for like 8 months to a year or longer.I often see videos get removed after about 2 years but it's copyright infringement nonetheless. People seem to ignore the yellow box at right warning not to upload content they don't own. It's surprising that Hasbro doesn't go after them more quickly but they're probably just busy maintaining their business. there is no question it is copyright infringment, it just seems hasbro has better things to do than chase after people who post videos on youtube.also everyone read this.http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/-xc1WMua3Sk, [link removed ~ many thanks ~ hathorcat] http://innovationlawblog.org/2011/07/peanuts-and-ponies-and-parodies-oh-my/ http://www.danielnyegriffiths.org/2011/09/friendship-is-money-ponies-internet.html what the person doing the plushes or anything to do with my little pony needs to do is pick up the phone call hasbro and work out a licencing agreement with them, it would be like, let me make cool pony plushes and i will give you 10 or 20 percent, and i bet hasbro would be fine with that! look on other sites at all the official licence pony things people are doing, it is not hard to become licenced to sell ponies!
I've said it elsewhere, but the hate this woman is getting is unreal. It seems to me, most people (on other sites) don't care as much that she's making buttloads of money, but that she dares to be egotistical while doing so. And I can't help but think of ANOTHER well-known plushie maker, who has a huge ego, but isn't ever called out to this extent. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that he's male and it's a ton of dudes calling White-Dove out, hmmmmmm? Disgusting.