tl;dr- There is a community surrounding a fictional foundation called SCP Foundation that is under a creative commons license, that someone in russia is illegally trademarking and threatening the community's future and stealing thousands of people's work. Please consider donating to fight this person and keep the SCP Foundation under creative commons for all to see, as it is intended. Link below.


If you have had internet access for the last decade, there is a good chance you have seen an SCP in some story, on some site, in some fanart, on some social media.

I'll have to make this brief, but SCP Foundation is "a collaborative urban fantasy writing website about the fictional SCP Foundation, a secretive organization that contains anomalous or supernatural items and entities away from the eyes of the public." There are thousands of unique stories and articles, ALONG with dozens and dozens of pieces of fan art, games, stories, short movies, and more.

Here is an example of a live action short a group of people made:
https://youtu.be/xVx2jyDPinw

I may be wording this incorrectly, but the SCP-Wiki, and thus all the media attached to it, is all user a creative commons license. Roughly, this means that you can use the SCP name freely, so long as you give appropriate credit back to the SCP-Wiki.

The problem, a Russian man named Andrey Duksin has taken advantage of very lax standards at the "Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property to trademark the SCP Foundation name and logo within the Russian Federation and it’s associated Eurasian Customs Union countries."

This is fraudulent. He is attempting to monetize on the entire SCP community, specifically on the Russian website, and has "made demands including promoting him to admin on the Russian Branch, and turning it into a platform for his merchandise. "

To, very roughly put this into perspective; this is like you writing a short story and posting it online. It is a little project of yours and you want to share it with the world. Then someone comes along, sees your story, and takes it, claims it as their own, and begins selling it without your consent. ... There's definitely more to that, but that is the very barebones situation here. Hell, when I'm finally done with it, a part of my fursona's backstory will be partially linked to the SCP foundation! My fursona would be taken away from me!

Since 2008 people have been making content in this infinitely expanding community and this man is threatening to take it all away through illegal means, and he is, somehow, winning.
SCP needs your help.

At the time of composing this journal, 35,397 users are currently on Furaffinity, be it logged in or not. $1 per person could be $35k for them.
Please consider making a donation to support the legal fees needed to take this motherf***er down.

Full info (with a much better explanation) along with gofundme link can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SCP/commen.....ing_emergency/
If you can't donate, please, consider sharing to facebook, twitter, anywhere you can to spread the word.

Thank you for reading.
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