SCP community, the following is an announcement regarding an ongoing licensing violation that has grown in scope to the point that public awareness is important. A Russian man named Andrey Duksin has abused lax standards at Rospatent (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 (at the moment of writing – Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan). He has since used said trademark as a method of threatening, extorting, and shutting down other Russian SCP content creators. He has also committed several acts of copyright infringement (which is separate but related to trademark rights) by selling copies of SCP article texts and art explicitly derivative of SCP Foundation stories without releasing either under CC-BY-SA. I want to make clear to all reading that this man is not a threat to SCP Foundation content creators outside of Russia and the EACU states above, and that what he has done is both illegal within Russia and so brazen as to be impossible almost anywhere else in the world
Below is a translation of a larger statement from our Russian colleagues on the matter, including multiple screenshots detailing his attempts to threaten, extort, and blackmail legitimate content creators. Please feel free to ask any questions about the matter here, and know that nothing here is a cause for panic. In the meantime, the SCP Foundation Wiki calls on Andrey Duksin, the ARTSCP organization, and all its collaborators to cease their illegal actions immediately pending legal action.
Statement from the Russian SCP Foundation Wiki on this matter.
