Mekatron wrote:Fansproject's definitely got the upper hand as they seem to be trying to avoid online retailers in general by selling through FansprojectCore. As time goes on they seem to be becoming less & less of a Third-party Transformers company and more of a competing transforming-robot brand. I welcome that.
RodimalToyota wrote:Mekatron wrote:Fansproject's definitely got the upper hand as they seem to be trying to avoid online retailers in general by selling through FansprojectCore. As time goes on they seem to be becoming less & less of a Third-party Transformers company and more of a competing transforming-robot brand. I welcome that.
Steel-core and Assaulter are so different in design from Broadside it's not even IP infringement. The same can be said for the "autocar combiner"
they are making, being so radically different in the car designs and shapes, it's so far removed from the original idea, it doesn't fit the IP enough.
the funny thing is, people don't really understand how IP infringement works. Basically it's up to the owner to make the claim as to how copied an item is.
Giant - has no licensed modes, it consists of generic construction equipment that combines into a larger robot.
It's not infringement... You can trademark a combiner, it's not a original concept. You can't claim colors unless there is more then three that exist in the exact same placement. The names have been changed, and the story is different.
Assaulter has a very different jet mode, and carrier mode then the original, it sports different asthetics, and only resuses colors, but not in the same places.
What I'm trying to say, is that only direct copy of molds, or molded designs taken from TM pictures in the Hasbro library would stand in court under IP infringement.
iGear, with it's remolds, and direct copies, is certainly the most infringing company on Hasbro IP.
Art Feather.. very infringing, it's close to iGear's status
FP, they haven't stolen an existing copy of anything. Even the upgrades are so drastically different then what Hasbro has offered, it can't hold a stone to the IP. They can basically be called a Toy Company, that specializes in robots that transforms. which is just about every company out Japan, Bandai, Yamato, ect.
PE, same here, so different, it would be a leap to anyone that didn't know the brand. people would say, oh a pink bike, and that's the only real forward comparison to the hasbro character.
Rodimus Prime wrote:Gauntlet101010 wrote:Throw us a bone one in a while ... like TFCC? Or Botcon? Like the various classics lines? Like the Masterpieces? Like the constant homages in current TF media? Or more than that?
All the things you listed are good examples. But BotCon and TFCC has been a clusterf**k lately (seems like they got some problems solved with the new pieces, but really there's no need for the obscene amount of repaints, instead introduce new figures). And if they were doing such a great job, there would be no need for 3rd party companies, and they would go out of business. And that is not the case.
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