I only disappeared for a month and all this happened? Seriously, someone is trying to harm Mofu Just tell me how I can help. I can't just sit like a duck and wait. If it's another game maker, let's flood his game with shit and bad comments. If it's a separate account, let's report it. Seriously, let's report it to a quarter of the people here. He wouldn't have the ball to think about doing that again
It's most likely not a game creator or creative in any way, but more likely a former fan who's just angry at Mofu and trying to harass them by doing false reports that characters look like minors to Itch and other platforms. Then they lie and claim on other sites the game was taken down because of copyright laws (that's not how copyright laws works, especially when Mofu isn't even making any profits yet on the game).
The person claims to have designed a bunch of characters in the game, despite the fact the person doesn't even have the talent to draw them, let alone make a Hentai game themselves. In reality, all they've really contributed were some ideas and really bad/rough drawing at best, which is complete joke that anyone can do and is in no way copyrighted material.
If this was truly a case of copyright infringement, millions of independent or doujinshi artists that make profit over using actual copyrighted characters in Hentai parodies would be out of business, or they'd have to seek approval from big companies to use said characters (no one does this cause it's ridiculous and no big company would approve to see their characters used in such ways). This is not the case though, since even if those characters in Futakin Valley are copyrighted, (they're not) they'd still fall under fair use, as it's still considered it's own unique creation and done in their own style. That's why doujinshi artist can use actual copyrighted characters without approval and make profit without legal repercussion.
Everything you say is correct from a legal standpoint, and I will study this as a law student. As you say, characters can be exploited and profited from even if they are protected. All companies turn a blind eye to doujinshi artists because their profits are small. Compared to what this partnership earns and the fact that no one has claimed ownership of the character, for example all hentai manga are seriously classified as parodies, even if they pay me a ton of money. I will not file cases over this number, as they are so numerous that each case may take at least two weeks. Literally, you will die before that. It terminates half of them, and this is considered a main reason for the neglect of personal rights in this case The matter would be radically different if someone made a huge amount of money from material containing that character. Let's say someone made a video about the character and that video got millions of views and the person ended up making an entire series. If he earns more than five pounds from that series, then the real owners of the character will file a lawsuit, but if it was just a video that barely earned a hundred dollars, they will have the right to file a lawsuit as well, but it will not be taken seriously. The judge will even side with the defendant