Disney Is Removing Baby Yoda Toys Due to Copyright Violations

Over the past week, Disney has issued takedown notices to a number of Etsy sellers who had listings for unofficial Baby Yoda merchandise.

The Verge reports that the Etsy sellers targeted by Disney were using the words “Star Wars,” “Mandalorian,” and “Yoda” to sell their unofficial Baby Yoda plushies and toys. Etsy acted on Disney’s request and deactivated the sellers’ storefronts until the copyright infringing words were removed from their listings.

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However, that hasn’t stopped those sellers from fulfilling their backlog of orders, or from selling further products that resemble Baby Yoda. The difference now is they are using words such as “baby alien” and “The Baby Child.”

Baby Yoda merchandise has been highly sought after since The Mandalorian premiered in November 2019 on Disney+. There hasn’t been any official merch released yet as Disney wanted to keep Baby Yoda under wraps until the show went out.

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Fortunately, Disney has seen the huge demand for Baby Yoda merch and is going to be releasing it soon. Need something to tide you over until then? Have a look at a photo of George Lucas hugging Baby Yoda.

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