Date: 2018-08-01T17:42:43.000-04:00

Sender

[Private]

Reynolds Law PLLC

Reynolds Law PLLC, PO Box 466

Lebanon, NH 03766

US



Sent via online form

Recipient

Kickstarter, PBC

58 Kent Street

Brooklyn, NY 11222

USA

Re: Monopoly Auctions



Description of copyrighted material: The copyrighted material is Hasbro, Inc.’s famous MONOPOLY® property trading game. The MONOPOLY property trading game as a whole, as well as the game board and specific elements and characters is the copyrighted property of Hasbro. Hasbro also owns the trademark rights to the MONOPOLY name and logo as well as to the game board itself and numerous other elements of the game that have achieved source-identifying significance, including the MR. MONOPOLY character and the rectangular-banded property squares.



Description of infringing material: This Kickstarter project attempts to raise money for an unlicensed and unauthorized “MONOPOLY Auctions” game which is based on Hasbro’s MONOPOLY property and copies many of the protected elements of the game, including the name, logo, MR. MONOPOLY character and the HASBRO GAMING and PARKER BROTHERS logos. While the project owner claims that some unnamed person at Hasbro encouraged him to post this project on Kickstarter to gauge interest in such a game, Hasbro has no record of any such communication. In the unlikely event permission was granted to do this, Hasbro hereby revokes it.

