 Ahoy, ahoy. Earlier this year, I was at last year. God, this has been a terrible year. So I can't remember if it was this year or at the end of last year. But regardless, there's been a legal case ongoing in Russia based on the SCP Wiki's trademark. I did a whole video on all of the details of the legal case back then. But the GoFundMe managed to make like $164,000. I think it's still open, actually. You know, I can check. I've got this page open right now. It is still open right now, actually. But it looks like the last donation was four months ago. So kind of slowed down a little bit. Anyway, it made $164,095 out of a $50,000 goal to basically bring a legal case against Andre Duxen for the purposes of fixing this thing. There was a long story short. He trademarked the SCP logo and then started using that to essentially intimidate other people into paying him money whenever they wanted to sell SCP merchandise inside Russia. So the SCP Foundation decided to, as I said, form a legal case on October 18th, which was a little while ago, but I was on break at the time. On October 18, there was an update on the GoFundMe page. Great news, everyone. The Russian Federal Anti-Monopoly Service has ruled that Duxen has violated Article 14.8 of the Russian federal law on business competition. And he has until November 10th to rectify his violation or face penalties. Due to Russian privacy law, we the plaintiffs don't know exactly what violation he committed and will not know until it is made public on November 10th. It is our hope that he was ordered to dissolve the trademark as that was our main request to the committee. But it is too early to fully celebrate, since it's possible, that they sided in with a different violation at this time. Regardless, this is a huge step forward in the case, and we owe everyone who contributed and shared our fundraiser a huge debt of thanks for making this possible. Thank you all so very much. So, okay. I actually bothered to look up Russian federal law on business competition and to find exactly what Article 14.8 is, unfortunately. So, Chapter 2.1, it's in Chapter 2.1 under unfair competition. And the articles in this chapter are all about, well, unfair competition, doing something to make business competition unfair, for lack of a better way to put it. And I've looked through it in 14.1, Chapter 2, let's scroll down to 14.8. The interesting part is 14.8 is a catch-all. It's Article 14.8 prohibition of other forms of unfair competition. Other forms of unfair competition, along with those specified in Articles 14.1 to 14.7 of the federal law of, of the federal law on protection of competition are prohibited. This is, yeah, this is, as I said, it's a catch-all in case it was, first of all, it's a catch-all in case it was unclear. Legalese is complicated and not something I want to get into, because I'm not a lawyer. But in this case, it's like in case we messed up anywhere above, or if we left something out that seems clearly like it's unfair competition, that's also prohibited. Because everything above it is literally an itemized like exacting, you cannot do this, you cannot do that, you cannot do this. Problem is, there are, let me just look here, so Article 14.6, if he had violated Article 14.6, that is unfair competition related to confusion. So unfair competition through actions or omissions by an economic entity that meant, I know this is great stuff, but this is the SCP Foundation's like, this, it's funny when it comes down to it that this legal stuff is important to what's going on at the SCP Foundation. And me, a non-lawyer has to do his best to interpret it, what exactly they're trying to talk about. Yeah, if he'd been found in violation of 14.6, it's unfair competition through actions or omissions by an economic entity that may cause confusion with operation of a competitor, or the goods or services put into civil circulation in the Russian Federation by the competitor is prohibited, including unlawful use of notations identical with a trademark. I think this is sort of the opposite of what he did. This is the other side of what he did. So maybe that wouldn't technically count. Unlawful use of notations identical with a trademark brand name, commercial designation, so on, so that's the whole bunch of stuff. But that's the opposite of what he did. So he, which it sounds like it's what he did, but he would actually be trying to enforce 14.6 on other people instead of the other way around because he technically owns the trademark. Or at least he properly, yeah, not that one, not that one. Inappropriate comparison, no. Unfair, by millions of misleading, yeah, that one could have been in there. But the interesting part is that like because of the way Russian federal law and privacy law works, they don't, if you, so for example, he violated article 14.2, they don't have to say that he are, that would be very specific about what he has violated. They don't actually have to say that because 14.8 is a catchall. So if they say you violated 14.8, which is other forms of unfair competition, along with those specified in articles 14.1 through 14.7, then if he violated, say 14.2, they could say he violated 14.8 without specifying and allow for the privacy of the defendant in this particular case, which is an interesting way to handle it. And maybe they're standard, I don't know. I don't want to get too far into the weeds on this. This isn't going to be a particularly long video. I just wanted to give you guys the proper update. The SCP foundation has been working pretty hard on this for a little while now. And though I may have differences of opinion with the administration, this is incredibly important to make sure that the SCP foundation stays first of all creative commons and second of all, as creative commons free and give people the ability to continue to work on it, not just to work on it, but to work on, you know, merchandise or videos or video games or movies, short films, the stuff that everybody wants to see more of, which we probably won't see a lot of films, but that is how it is. Anyway, thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed this video, please scroll down and hit the subscribe button, and then hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos. And I did it again. Hold on, let's go over to the Patreon page. I did this last video. I'm like, I can remember everything, but I just woke up, which you can probably tell just like last time around. I can go to the Patreon page, order it. Come on, load already. You know you want to. 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