Takedown notice and ask for Ban for user who commited a Discrimnatory art against myself.
ZippySqrl 
Tired Artist
@Mike
Funny thing is, what he’s doing could also be considered harassment. Threatening to take legal action because the owner of the site won’t do what he says, simply because he thinks he’s right?
Getting upset about how someone drew a doodle of a character he identifies as, and because it offends him he thinks that counts as harassment. And he thinks that’s reason enough to force people to delete it, threatening legal action if they don’t?
There’s some silly things on the internet, but this.. this is something.
Funny thing is, what he’s doing could also be considered harassment. Threatening to take legal action because the owner of the site won’t do what he says, simply because he thinks he’s right?
Getting upset about how someone drew a doodle of a character he identifies as, and because it offends him he thinks that counts as harassment. And he thinks that’s reason enough to force people to delete it, threatening legal action if they don’t?
There’s some silly things on the internet, but this.. this is something.
Mikey 
Moderator
Ayriana
@Derphorse
Okay, but no one’s going to take an internet argument case to court.
Okay, but no one’s going to take an internet argument case to court.
Itsthinking 
🅱
All this time spent with legal threats could be spent getting better at art, Zimbabwe.
ZippySqrl
Tired Artist
@Derphorse
The only one who should be judged is the one who wants to identify with a generic cartoon pony with the word “fag” written on its ass.
The only one who should be judged is the one who wants to identify with a generic cartoon pony with the word “fag” written on its ass.
Archonix 
Retired Ass
@Omegastyle
US courts in particular apply a distinctiveness test to characters to determine whether they can qualify for copyright protection. If a character isn’t sufficiently distinct, it doesn’t quality. Individual pieces of art depicting that character qualify for copyright protection but the character itself cannot be protected as a distinct entity. It can, however, be trademarked, but trademarks are expensive and require active legal protection in order to retain the mark.
Hasbro doesn’t own your character. Strictly speaking, nobody owns your charcter. In realistic terms it isn’t an issue 99% of the time as most people will generally apply common sense to the matter and acknowledge your defacto ownership of the character, but you can have no legal recourse to protect your character from exploitation by other parties.
This is ignoring the mushy grey area of copyright and fanworks in general. By and large, worldwide copyright law has been moving in a general direction of allowing greater fair-use rights of copyright and trademarked characters for non-profit or derived works on the level of fanfiction and fanart. What test cases exist have broadened the scope of the individual’s right to make derivative works of other IP, as long as they are not directly impacting the IP owner’s ability to exploit their own property.
tl;dr it’s all a bit squishy, but you can’t demand legal protection of your character unless they’re sufficiently distinct. Characters that are created as parts of derivative works generally aren’t sufficiently distinct.
US courts in particular apply a distinctiveness test to characters to determine whether they can qualify for copyright protection. If a character isn’t sufficiently distinct, it doesn’t quality. Individual pieces of art depicting that character qualify for copyright protection but the character itself cannot be protected as a distinct entity. It can, however, be trademarked, but trademarks are expensive and require active legal protection in order to retain the mark.
Hasbro doesn’t own your character. Strictly speaking, nobody owns your charcter. In realistic terms it isn’t an issue 99% of the time as most people will generally apply common sense to the matter and acknowledge your defacto ownership of the character, but you can have no legal recourse to protect your character from exploitation by other parties.
This is ignoring the mushy grey area of copyright and fanworks in general. By and large, worldwide copyright law has been moving in a general direction of allowing greater fair-use rights of copyright and trademarked characters for non-profit or derived works on the level of fanfiction and fanart. What test cases exist have broadened the scope of the individual’s right to make derivative works of other IP, as long as they are not directly impacting the IP owner’s ability to exploit their own property.
tl;dr it’s all a bit squishy, but you can’t demand legal protection of your character unless they’re sufficiently distinct. Characters that are created as parts of derivative works generally aren’t sufficiently distinct.
soundtea 
Ocellus is best buggo
@Derphorse
Imagine the lawyer or judge you’re telling this to.
Do you really think they’ll accept it?
Imagine the lawyer or judge you’re telling this to.
Do you really think they’ll accept it?
SocDev
Well stressed, friend!
@Derphorse
“People were mean to me on the internet, Mr.Judge”
“Ok Zimbabwe, show me with this doll where they hurt you”.
“People were mean to me on the internet, Mr.Judge”
“Ok Zimbabwe, show me with this doll where they hurt you”.
Derphorse
@LightningBolt
Because I will go through with this. I’m very serious just like you said. And first thing in the morning I’m getting a consultation.
This will end. This will definitely end.
I give no fucks.
Because I will go through with this. I’m very serious just like you said. And first thing in the morning I’m getting a consultation.
This will end. This will definitely end.
I give no fucks.
Mikey
Moderator
Ayriana
@Derphorse
Good luck with that! No, seriously. Nobody’s gonna take your case.
Good luck with that! No, seriously. Nobody’s gonna take your case.
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