The Day Before's calendar app nemesis confirms it owns disputed copyright, would like you to know it's been around for 13 years

pcgamer.com:

It's been one month since The Day Before got unceremoniously yanked from Steam and its developer, Fntastic, took to Twitter(opens in new tab) to announce that it had been removed «at the request of a private individual,» and promised to «definitely solve everything». A little while later, with everything definitely not solved, Fntastic put out a statement(opens in new tab) identifying its new arch-enemy, declaring «The so-called 'owner' of the rights to the title is the creator of the calendar app, which has nothing to do with the games category».

Well, two can play at the public statements game, because now the developer of TheDayBefore calendar app has spoken to Eurogamer. TheDayBefore points out that it «first distributed the app under the name 'The Day Before' in 2010»—a fact easily confirmed by checking its Google Play page(opens in new tab)—and has held the South Korean trademark for the title since 2015. Upon «Knowing that the game of the same name was produced,» the calendar app's owners began «taking measures to protect trademark rights,» like registering for a US trademark(opens in new tab) in 2021.

The calendar app told Eurogamer that it currently holds copyright for 'The Day Before' in «Korea, the United States, China, Russia, Japan, Vietnam, and the European Union,» which sounds like a hell of a situation for Fntastic's lawyers to unpick, and that it's eager to put the trademark dispute behind it so that the app's fans can «can use it without worrying». I don't know that the 40+ million people who have downloaded the calendar app really care enough about its copyright to 'worry' about it, exactly, but I suppose it's the thought that counts.

It all makes the situation about Fntastic and The Day Before seem