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We CAN post pictures on our blogs, and we don’t have to put “Copyright Club Peenguin”. Here is a response to a letter I sent to Club Penguin, about the “Billybob” who posted comments on our sites.
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Hello,
The post that you are talking about was not created by Billybob. We love that so many people have created fan sites for Club Penguin. [It’s] true that taking credit for something that someone else did is wrong but as long as your site [doesn’t] promote cheating, hacking, meanness or rudeness and you don’t claim to be the creators or staff of Club Penguin, feel free to create a site dedicated to Club Penguin. You can even find banners for your Club Penguin fan site at:
-http://www.clubpenguin.com/fun/fan-banner.htm
Sincerely,
Josh S
Club Penguin Support
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Here is the message from the fake Billybob:
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I’m here with a warning!
The Club Penguin Team is currently searching through all of the WordPress blogs involving Club Penguin. A lot of them break Club Penguin’s registered trademark by putting pictures from Club Penguin on their blogs without permission. This is a crime called plagiarism. Take this blog for example. Oagalthrop claims to have these pictures and that it’s his work, except for one difference. The pictures he took of Club Penguin were made by the Club Penguin Team. Therefore committing Plagiarism. As I type these words the team is going through all of the Club Penguin WordPress blogs and checking for trademarks. The consequences could be more than getting banned. It could end up being a fine or incarceration. My advise is to get out of any army and if not turn it into a just a team.
This is serious and I hope you read it well.
It is more than just pictures. It’s what armies are doing to Club Penguin. People on this website for example, are using bad language which could get them banned and spread to Club Penguin. It already is. It’s also that people are spreading hacks onto Club Penguin and cheating as well. We’ve stopped hacks a long time ago but want to stop people from finding new hacks. It’s not just this blog. It’s other blogs such as pinkmafias.wordpress.com paintboy100.wordpress.com or rpfrulers.wordpress.com.
As for pictures, it isn’t Disney thats doing this. It’s both our policy of a safe environment for children and our trademark which we want to keep. Having pictures still up violates our trademark.
As a result our team is going to put up warnings soon and not responding to them could be dangerous. I’m putting up less demanding warnings in order to help keep your team in tact. Getting rid of all Club Penguin pictures and preventing anyone from using bad language could persuade the team to still allow blog about Club Penguin. The Club Penguin team started their search from your links and found so many wordpress blogs all of which will soon get the same warnings. My advise is to do this before they spread their demands.
Plagiarism: copying without permission(it’s illegal).
Incarceration: Being put in jail or juvenile hall.
These are just some things you should remember.
Until then… Waddle on!
-Billybob
Posted by Billybob at 6:45
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Busted! He was a fake, it was really a guy named Armybuster who was from the UMA.
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So everyone can continue to make their blogs they way they always have.
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-Oagalthorp
Until later,
March on!
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