The Day Before's copyright issue is real after all
The Day Before developer Fntastic is still fighting a trademark dispute with a calendar app.
Whilst we found out earlier this month that The Day Before (opens in new tab) had been delisted from Steam due to a copyright issue (opens in new tab), the developer of the calendar app has now gone public about the dispute, confirming that it is "taking measures" to protect its trademark for an app that has exceeded 40 million downloads since the app launched under the same name, The Day Before, almost 15 years ago.
"We first distributed the app under the name 'The Day Before' in 2010 to provide anniversary count app services used in many countries around the world," the app developer said in a statement to Eurogamer (opens in new tab).
"We hold trademark rights to the app's name 'The Day Before' and have so far recorded over 40m downloads. Since the trademark registration in Korea in 2015, we have held the right (registered in the name of 'The Day Before' CEO Lee Sun-jae). Knowing that the game of the same name was produced, we are taking measures to protect trademark rights."
The statement goes on to confirm that it holds the trademark in a variety of territories, including Korea, the United States, China, Russia, Japan, Vietnam, and the European Union and insists it wants "to solve the trademark problem as soon as possible and continue to protect the app so that users can use it without worrying".
It's just the latest in a long and bizarre line of events, with the game's community moderators not even being sure if The Day Before is real (opens in new tab). It does, however, confirm that at least the copyright claim is real – something some people had been doubting, too.
Fntastic recently released a short "dev vlog" (opens in
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