Hi, I'm the person who posted "Friendship never dies" on the GB Showdown Jam. Thank you so much for organizing it one more year, and for playing all the games live. With over 80 it was still a big job! 😊

Regarding my "copyright violationt", no problem for you to make a decision accordingly, or submit it to the vote of the other participants or whatever, you do as you like, it's your Jam, you're the King (mind you, I'm French, and Kings don't last very long in France haha 😁).
With the excellent games I've seen, there's not much chance I'll be in the top, but you never know ...

In fact I thought that by "copyright violation", you were only talking about Game Boy games themselves, for example using music, or assets directly from a rom, I hadn't even thought that my "parody" came into play since it was about movies, and series, but when you said it live, it made perfect sense !

Whatever you decide, I'll be back next year for Game Boy Showdown Jam 2024 😎

copyrights are often used to stop artistic projects like this and funnel all the money to the already rich. so just do it!
as Picasso said: good artists copy great artists steal