Guys, I need your guidance about this since I don't know what to do... I wanted to necro/revive this 10+yo thread about this issue and/or mention this in the CF Revival thread I made, but I think a new thread here is the proper way to follow to say this.

Most of you know about ClayFighter: Infinite Clayfare, my personal fullgame project which is the compilation of all my work I made for MUGEN until now. I thought I won't be noticed by Interplay, but now I know I did... but not the way I would liked to. Checking my Gmail yesterday (mostly cleaning mails) I found this one from Interplay's lawyer Christopher Nelson:

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As you can read, it's a Cease and Desist about my fullgame and all related to ClayFighter (included a direct link to my site apart of the CF page I made for IC). The mail is from July 18th and I just saw it yesterday, and meanwhile I continued with the promotion and even released the Beta 2 in August.

You all know that MUGEN itself and all content on it is marked as non-profittable, so I couldn't use it to get money, it if I could do it (like passing the game to IKEMEN for example) I won't do it anyway since I love this game series. But seems that Interplay guys are just businessmen that just want money and don't care about videogames anymore: I can't ignore a mail like this, but either I want to answer with something that I'd regret later (I'm so angry with all of this BTW), especially because the same guy was the one behind the cancellation of ClayFighter: ReSculpted, another CF fangame. And maybe he doesn't know about MUGEN, so yeah, I could stop my game and delete all the promotion and the twitter (maybe I could rename it as @basara.kun as my MUGEN general account), but he could think that I could continue when he see my chars and the others from MUGEN and not just made by me... since he linked me Ultra ClayFighter, a romhack not made by me.

I want to delete the mail and continue as nothing happens... but what about he and Interplay really make legal actions?? I mean, I'm from Chile, technically they can't do nothing, but there's a precedent here about "Miel Gibson" case (a small honey maker that has a wordplay between "miel", honey in Spanish, and the actor, whose laywers threatened them), so I'm not sure if I'm safe here...

tl;dr Interplay wants to make legal actions about my game and I need your help, guidance and/or opinions about what to do in this case... maybe about how to make a mail clarifying about I don't have intentions of use their properties in a bad way but as a way of fanart. I read you, people...

Dr. Basara Kilnklein said, September 08, 2023, 11:11:15 pm

I'm pissed too, but that's not the way to do things, I've been guided by fellow Guild members on Discord to do what I've to do, and one of them is to wait an official answer from Interplay about my issue... or that they responds publicly since the spread of the word on Twitter and some VG news sites

Since the answer has been given, the best option now is to wait for a response.
I still believe that the best way to solve this was to get a lawyer.
Most are bullies by nature, taking advantage that many people have no idea what are their rights.
Most change their 'threats' when facing another lawyer.
If money is the issue, some lawyers do not charge at the first consultation, or the consultation is at a low price.

Putting this in the thread that's actually about the C&D because I don't want his other clayfighter thread to get derailed

Charles The fighter said, September 09, 2023, 09:57:53 pm

087-B said, September 09, 2023, 09:49:32 pm

Charles The fighter said, September 08, 2023, 05:10:44 pm

Be an Centrlist man and do what the fallout onlline dev once did threaten the lawyer

Charles The fighter said, September 09, 2023, 09:26:16 pm

You know almost everyone is pissed off now. Im just expressing my anger. Had you man up yet now against interplay yet?

Ah yes this is definitely sane, rational, reasonable behavior that would have no consequences whatsoever.

Still, Im angry at interplay, others are angry at interplay, basakun is angry at interplay and you should be angry at interplay also. So why you going against the centralist route?

I'm not happy about them doing this either but I don't think I'd get this worked up over it. Threatening the lawyer like the fallout online guy (???) is only going to make matters worse and will probably wind up in a lawsuit, and we still don't have a response from Interplay themselves yet so for a while it's going to be really hard to judge how the situation will end. I think Basara may be taking the most reasonable response by halting development after he finishes up Dr. Kiln (presumably) and taking a break from actually making clayfighter content for the engine, and he tried to make his actual response to the C&D email as organized and explanatory as he possibly could. He talked about it here so that he wouldn't make judgements too quickly, and everyone else came to him with the understanding that the best thing to do would be to not continue.

I have no idea what Interplay is actually doing with ClayFighter right now but I really don't think boycotting them would really change anything. The law is the law, and you either live with it or don't. I wish things could be better but they probably won't be improving for a while.

Are you trying to fuckin mock basakun? Since you sound like you mocking him hell i think you're one of interplay's goons trying to harass him like take 2 did with modders. Get out scum, no one wants copyright abusers, The Centrlists will take over this fuckin forum.

1Ultima said, September 10, 2023, 03:00:47 pm

ah yes, ye olde "my Gdrive was hacked and it had the most recent (almost complete) beta on it oh no"

I think its best to wait for a official responce 1st before doing something like that. Maybe they can realise Mugen is a profit free game or something.

Well, I did say he should do that if Interplay didn't change their minds. I mean, it would be pointless to do that if they actually do the reasonable thing and leave Infinite Clayfare alone.

Charles The fighter said, September 10, 2023, 05:18:26 pm

Are you trying to fuckin mock basakun? Since you sound like you mocking him hell i think you're one of interplay's goons trying to harass him like take 2 did with modders. Get out scum, no one wants copyright abusers, The Centrlists will take over this fuckin forum.

You need to calm your ass down. You're being aggressive for no reason.

I hate when...
Company: *Does absolutely NOTHING with the IP for years, decades, centuries, millennia.*
Fans: Well, it's time to revive it. *Makes a good fangame.*
Company: NOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T REVIVE OUR DEAD IP THAT WE WILL NEVER EVER TOUCH AGAIN. *Throws a C&D tantrum.*

This really sucks, compa. I hope this gets resolved soon.

Okay, and also im very sorry. Look  im just upset and not in a best state of mind. I just wish ic an figure out an good direction