Bungie? (Destiny)

by tadboz, Fort Collins, CO, Friday, February 05, 2016, 07:47 (3309 days ago) @ narcogen

Right? That's what I thought too. It's bizarre.

The text of the email is as follows:

"I am sorry to have to be the bearer of bad news, but unfortunately we have received a copyright infringement notice for your model Destiny Cryptic Dragon Scout Rifle

It claims that you infringe the rights of Activision, who own the copyright to Destiny.

Therefore we have no choice but to remove your design by making it private at this time. Please do not make the design public without express permission from us or place any orders on the model. Doing so may trigger our repeat infringer policy.

Our full content policy is here if you would like to know more: http://www.shapeways.com/legal/content_policy. If you believe that this takedown is incorrect, under our content policy you have the right to challenge this takedown. Please refer to the content policy for information about what needs to be included in your counter-notice.

Thank you for your understanding. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at any time."

Maybe Activision is finally ready to release a toy line? (Not counting the ThreeZero Titan figure) That would be sweet, but it still seems heavyhanded to snuff out fan creations--and with the rarity and inconsistency of a lightning strike, no less. I just don't see how my thing infringed worse than others. People's replica Ghosts, for instance, compete with a physical object released in a special edition of the game. That I would understand. But my tiny plastic gun has yet to present a threat to anything they're selling. Just... weird.