Yu-Gi-Oh accuses White House of using anime footage ‘without permission’

https://www.dexerto.com/anime/yu-gi-oh-responds-after-white-house-uses-anime-clips-in-official-videos-3333269/

44 Comments

  1. Just another example of how absolutely lawless this administration is.

    Diddlin’ kids, killing and arresting innocent civilians…yeah fuck it let’s throw copyright infringement on the pile too who cares right?!

  2. Ok_Bedroom_5622 on

    Somewhere Yugi Muto is about to say “you activated my copyright trap card.”

  3. The guy in the White House didn’t respect the constitution and went to war without congressional approval. Do they think he’ll respect copyright laws? lol

  4. QuantumWarrior on

    Ah yes when I think of doing things THE AMERICAN WAY my mind definitely jumps to Dragonball, Yu-gi-oh, Braveheart, and Gladiator.

  5. I’m tired with journalists treating these all as isolated incidents. This administration has a consistent history of flouting laws they find inconvenient. That they ignore copyright laws isn’t news. That this administration so casually considers itself above the law should be.

  6. “Wait a minute, did you use a bunch of YuGiOh footage without our permission?”

    “Yeah, so?”

    “That’s against the law isn’t it?”

    “Screw the law, I have money!”

  7. LandoBamdo571 on

    So a Puerto Rican singing in Spanish at the Super Bowl is not American but Japanese media is? Make it make sense.

  8. GamingWithBilly on

    I wish IP holders would take legal action against the government for exploiting their creations. What I’m seeing is a disturbing distortion—iconic stories about trust, endurance, preservation, and perseverance in the face of evil are being repurposed to associate themselves with death and war. I love these worlds. they were an escape from the harshness of reality. Now they’re being twisted to serve a national narrative. These characters don’t belong to any government. Watching them used as military recruitment tools or as implicit justification for inhumane killings and war crimes is shameful. Those stories were never about dropping bombs on people halfway around the world, and it’s wrong to contort them into something they were never meant to represent. So I really wish IP holders would sue the government. Just because it exists doesn’t mean that it can be used to further the gains and public relations of a government at the expense of the creator. This blatant disregard for the holders of the IP in music, art, movie and anime degrades the international trade trust to maintain and uphold the copyrights of the world, and it needs to stop.

  9. They clearly have internet culture people in their admin, but it’s stange: how could they be so steeped in memes yet not know how much the internet at large hates them?

  10. MaxSchreckArt616 on

    Takahashi died trying to save people. Not a single person involved with maga would ever do that. 

  11. ‘I reveal my trap card: Mirror Force! You should take a look in the mirror, Mr President.’

    *Life points down to 0 as camera transitions to his mugshot in the mirror*

  12. Yu-Gi-Oh creator Kazuki Takahashi died saving three people from drowning. He would’ve been adamantly against this war and using his characters who embrace friendship for such a despicable PR ploy.

  13. Those silly companies thinking there’s still any law in the US…

    Especially copyright laws, that have been ignored for quite some time in order to “achieve progress” in AI.

  14. Hoax_Pudding_Cup on

    Every day I get to see a sentence my ancestors never would’ve dreamed of.

  15. Electrical-Bee-7362 on

    This administration really has a thing for getting things without permission. 
    From the diddler-in-chief to whisky pete

  16. Gleipnir_xyz on

    Can we all just believe in the heart of the cards hard enough to top-deck a way out of this clusterfuckery?

  17. I just wish one of these companies would send a cease and desist but I get what the outcome could be 🙄

  18. Quigleythegreat on

    Breaking news- the President has been spotted wearing a new, mysterious blue stone necklace, ranting about feeding souls to “the greatest leviathan in the world-possibly ever”.

  19. Please Yu-gi-oh! Just release a statement from Bandit Keith. Make Bandit Keith say, “Fuck Ice.”