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Post #11 in this thread....

I better clarify a few things. I should know as I got the idea for the tournament and also made the agreement with Hasbro.


We received a cease and desist letter from Hasbro.
They wanted us to:

• Cancel the tournament
• Destroy the produced games
• Never create a game based on Monoply again
• Pay 5000 euro for damages

We settled on:

• Run the tournament one time only
• Only give the already produced games away for personal use only
• Never create a game based on Monoply again
• Pay 3000 euro for damages

Originally we had plans about selling the games afterwards so affiliate programs could use them for gifts for their affiliates. We will not sell games now.

There is produced 22 games, most of them was given away to the winners of each round during the tournament.

looks like fun, some of those "chance" cards are great, heh :thumbsup

Aye.

here is post #11

What is post #11 about then?

Congrats on your negotiating with them. It sounded like a great idea and concept, just the second i looked at it I thought no way in hell this can fly with a company like Hasbro, they would be sueing people etc... Sucks the person that got you involved with it lead you to believe it was ok. Concept is good. If you changed the board around and didnt copy their exact layout, didn't use "opoly" in your name and just made your own game with similar rules you would be 100% fine and still accomplish the same goal.

He was mistaken... originally we had thought we would sell the game because we were advised by the maker that it was legal and there are other games being sold that are similar like http://www.stripopoly.com but obviously we can't do that now. Thanks for your concern and I appreciate your characteristic of being right... you can never have enough of that... people who are right.

The C&D we received didn't have as much to do with the game (which is a legally purchased Monopoly game with stickers placed on the board) as it did with the image that we used on our tourny site and the fact that we were calling it a Monopoly Tournament. The C&D didn't specifically say that the games were a violation of trademark... it was the image on the site and the use of their name. We should have vetted the idea better... that is a given... but the real kicker is that there probably wouldn't have been a problem at all if some GFY know-it-all dickwad didn't decide to play Hasbro policeman.

Please dont try and turn this around on me, I am only following a thread. It has zero to do with me being "right." Dont go public with such things if you dont want people to read and try to find out answers to questions.

You got one guy trying to sell the games for $100 each, and another (the thread starter) claiming they never had intentions to sell it. Two blatantly disagreeing statements and I am simply trying to find out the truth.

that part sucks too. who ?

I was pointing out that you were right... where is the confusion?

DX won't tell me... he knows.

ah, must have scanned right past it

You are right, that is confusing.

The original intention was to sell games after the tournament.
That will not happen now.