What is the deal with Mojang's IP?

Post date: 2021-09-24 23:42:32
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There are a great many "unofficial Minecraft" series being published, many of them self-published on KDP or from small presses, but others from well-known publishers (e.g. HarperCollins, also Feiwel & Friends a MacMillan imprint]). But I'm not seeing anything in the official Branding guidelines saying that this is okay; to the contrary, it looks like--as of 2015, at least--they've clearly been saying "don't do this." Am I just misreading the document?

As the various book series will attest, "Unofficial Minecraft" works are definitely a thing, but I can't read Mojang's branding guidelines as saying anything except "don't do this" (e.g. under "don't": "try to make money from anything we've made"). Were their branding guidelines more lax/forgiving at some point and, if so, are various authors "grandfathered in" so to speak, or is everyone just collectively deciding to ignore the guidelines and take their chances? I'm willing to believe that a self-published author on KDP might just go skipping into a minefield, but I doubt that two of the Big Five would have decided to invite a losing lawsuit if the situation is as cut and dried as it looks to me. So now I feel like I'm probably missing something.

Obligatory YANAL, YANML, YANAIPL, etc.
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