Thread:Sakaros/@comment-76.79.39.174-20190926034134

Good Evening,

My name is Matthew W. Parker, and I'm the legal counsel for The Royal Manticoran Navy, Inc. I am also writing on behalf of BuNine, Inc., and William Knight, as Copyright holders to the images posted on your 'Imperial Honors' page. It is the belief of all the abovementioned that the use of their copyrighted material on the Imperial Honors page represent a violation of their copyrights, one that does not meet the factors for Fair Use as laid out in 17 USC 107.

While imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, we would be even more flattered if you drew inspiration from our work without putting us -- and David Weber -- in a situation that infringes on our intellectual property by directly copying our work. We would much rather create new content than police other fans, but the copyright laws leave us with little alternative. (Besides, we'd rather see your new work than our old work.)

All of us involved in this letter are Science Fiction fans, and most of us are also Star Wars fans. Speaking personally I am a fan of Star Wars, the old Expanded Universe, and Star Wars fan fiction. It is not out of greed or anger that we're requesting the images on that page be taken down, but only out of a need to actively protect the copyrights involved.

We are asking informally at this point because we do not want to see anyone's reputation harmed, or the community impacted. I don't personally know if Wikia uses Copyright Strikes in the same form as Youtube does, but if it does we would certainly not want the community to be impacted if we can resolve this quietly and amicably. That being said, if you are not inclined to take down the images we will avail ourselves of the DMCA takedown form offered by Wikia.

We are happy to discuss this matter, and the artist who created the initial images for those ribbons has indicated he would be willing to help design custom ones for this community in return for a donation to our charity of choice. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me at the email below.

If we have not heard back in seven (7) days, we will unfortunately have to use the Wikia DMCA.

Thank you,

Matthew W. Parker, Esq. JAG@trmn.org 