Last week, we brought to your attention a Final Fantasy VII miniseries being Kickstarted. The team behind the unofficial project was asking for $400,000 to create a web series based on Square Enix’s most famous game.

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Well, Square Enix caught wind of it, and not surprisingly, it wants to protect its intellectual property.Kickstarter backers received the following message:Additionally, Square Enix’s claim , distributed by the company’s North American office in California, notes that “Square Enix is the owner of all intellectual property rights to the Final Fantasy franchise under which videogames, online services, and motion pictures have been published… The project itself is in infringement of our copyrights and should be removed entirely from Kickstarter.”While it’s unclear why the creators of the Kickstarter ever thought they would be able to create a web series based on another company’s extremely valuable property, it remains to be seen whether Square Enix and the group behind the Kickstarter could come to some sort of agreement. But it's extremely unlikely.

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