The song literally caused a faction war if you’re taking it seriously. I’d say it reflects Hasbro’s views.

@Brony_Conundrum  
 
“Tragic. But informative! Or so I’ve been told.”  
-Cave Johnson

@TexasUberAlles  
This guy gets it.

@Toxicpinkiepie  
There’s more to it than that, though; if fanmade content might realistically be confused for official content by any random person off the street, then the fanmade content is a legitimate threat to the IP owner’s trademark, and the IP owner has every legal and moral right to clamp down on it, whether it was made for profit or not. Laugh at poniesFTW all you want, this fandom does indeed have a massive sense of entitlement when it comes to fan-generated work, but as the owner of the MLP franchise it is 100% the right of Hasbro to control how the public sees it, just like it’s 100% the right of any artist who paints a picture to control how it gets shown to the world. If you put your heart and soul into painting something you really love, and some douchebag decides to trace it and add something to it that you find horrible and offensive and then post it all over the itnernet, wouldn’t you be pissed off about it, even if they weren’t trying to make money off of it? Hasbro has a 100% legit interest in controlling how the public sees the MLP trademark, because if someone turns out something horrible with the MLP brand on it and uninformed people who see it mistake it for official merchandise, it could seriously hurt them as a company; there are plenty of real world examples of fakies being mistaken for The Real Deal and costing companies dearly in lost sales and damaged reputation. The problem is made worse by U.S. trademark law, which says that if a company doesn’t defend its trademarks, any scumbag ripoff company that comes along after that and produces straight up bootlegs and counterfeits can claim in court that the trademark was undefended and therefore they should be allowed to keep churning out cheap Chinese knockoffs without being punished.

the fanmade doesn’t even make money so its not like Hasbro is losing any.

Question:  

@poniesFTW  
Well, aren’t you a barrel of sunshine.

@Jumpitydude
 
As you can see @Deserter is one of those entitled persons, hes still on the case 1 year later.
 
To this day their are still people like deserter, one of the most recent ones was JayAnimations and his arrogant tweets about Button Mash during the 100th episode.

@poniesFTW  

@poniesFTW  
Ah, entitlement, the Catch-22 of arguments.

@Jumpitydude
 
Lots of these people are full of themselves. They think they are entitled to something that isnt theirs.

@hype
 
@poniesFTW
 
Guys, stop.
 
The fire died out a full year ago, don’t try lighting it again. It’s pointless. I don’t care what’s right or wrong in this argument, it doesn’t need to start over.

Bottom line its Hasbros intellectual property, you have no say in it. Deal with it.

>why doesn’t the world work like a kids show!?
 
oh jeez anon, i have no idea

@LightningBolt  
do we need higher ress of this?

@Kolbjorn  
Well, they ARE higher res…

@Kolbjorn  
That’s what I wanna know.

who’s the asshole that is reuploading all the kwark shit?

_And in the naked light I saw  
Ten thousand people maybe more  
People talking without speaking  
People hearing without listening  
People writing songs that voices never shared  
No one dared  
Disturb the sound of silence

Because they heard your song.

I can’t believe we had a shooting in the comments, and we didn’t even had this yet:  

@TheLoneLampman  
DAGNABBIT, STUPID TINY MOBILE SCREEN NOT LETTIN’ ME SEE I WAS IN A RASSIN’ FRASSIN’ SILLY GIF GUNS THREAD
 
Okay here’s two to make up for it.  

 
@Jumpitydude  
They say I sound Oldskool, baby  
like Frank and Sammy Davis  

I’m surprised no one’s put this yet.
 

I have nothing to add to the topic, so here’s two gifs to make up for it.
 
 

@Background Pony #2829  
Dude, they are lawyers who do IP law for a living, and you are a fanboy with a truly astounding sense of entitlement.
 
They know the law better than you do, kid.
 
Can you even read, or is someone paraphrasing this for you? The law says, quite clearly, right there in the section which I so courteously excerpted and bolded for you, that “non profit” does not matter. Your ignorance and refusal to accept reality is just amazing. What is wrong with you?