Damn, did not know a design this trivial in nature can be protected. They’re not marked as registered logos in images, hence me thinking they’d be okay, and they had already removed all verbal mentions of FFXIV, Square-Enix and the job names and so on.
Shame, the necklaces were super pretty, I was looking at getting an Astro one, pricy as they are.
In case the status changes, here’s what the page looks like right now:
MMORPG INSPIRED ✧ Necklaces is the subject of an intellectual property dispute and is currently unavailable.
And when clicking on the claim details:
Date: 2024-03-28T17:13:03.000-07:00
Sender
[Private]
Square Enix, Inc.
999 N. Pacific Coast Highway
El Segundo, CA 90245
US
Sent via online form
Recipient
Kickstarter, PBC
228 Park Ave S PMB 59430
New York, New York 10003-1502 US
USA
Re: MMORPG INSPIRED ✧ Necklaces
Description of copyrighted material: Material from FINAL FANTASY XIV, specifically the icons for the different jobs in the game. You may find information about the FINAL FANTASY XIV job icons here: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/jobguide/battle/
Description of infringing material: Necklace designs using copyrighted FINAL FANTASY XIV job icons as part of the design. ```I mean, yeah. you can’t just take things from games even if they’re “small” and try to sell them.
Literally everything in the game is copyrighted, whoever thought this would fly doesn’t understand how game companies protect their IP
The Nike logo is also trivial in nature, as in it’s not a complex shape, yet you better believe they will defend someone else using the iconography
