Bahamut in Turkish mythology, an angel that holds up the world, is one thing. Feel free to use this as much as you want.
Bahamut the Platinum Dragon is a D&D thing and copyrighted.
There is significant difference.
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Bahamut in Turkish mythology, an angel that holds up the world, is one thing. Feel free to use this as much as you want.
Bahamut the Platinum Dragon is a D&D thing and copyrighted.
There is significant difference.
What the original meaning of Bahamut is covered here: Bahamut - Wikipedia. But it isn't interesting for this discussion. It is neither copyrighted, or trademarked though. It is part of a brand identity that WoTC has staked a claim that has not been specifically found by a court or other body as not being theirs.
It isn't copyrighted because copyrights do not cover individual words or phrases, and do not protect titles of works. So "The Hobbit" as a phrase cannot be protected by copyright, but the entirety of the text by JRR Tolkien is. This also covers the concept of derivative copyright, but that is a different discussion. Source: Choosing Among Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Law for Protection | Justia
It could be trademarked but it isn't registered as such. "Bahamut: Dimension of Darkness" by Cygames, and "Guardian Force Bahamut" by Square Co have registered trademarks for example including the phrase. Generally to have protection, you need to sell a product to the public with the mark attached. So the jeweler Bahamut probably has this stamped on their jewelry, in a particular style and font. WoTC does not have a product with the name Bahamut in it (if they did, it would be registered). However, it does not need to be registered to be valid; it just limits the laws that applies. See:
A product can be covered with both at the same time; The D&D logo is an example a pair of letters and specific art. The art is copyrighted, the D&D phrase is trademarked.
So is Bahamut actually trademarked or copyrighted by WoTC? No, but it IS protected as a product identity or more commonly called a Brand Identity. See the SRD page 1. (Microsoft Word - SRD-OGL_V1.1.docx (wizards.com))
. (e) "Product Identity" means product and product line names, logos and identifying marks including trade dress; artifacts; creatures characters; stories, storylines, plots, thematic elements, dialogue, incidents, language, artwork, symbols, designs, depictions, likenesses, formats, poses, concepts, themes and graphic, photographic and other visual or audio representations; names and descriptions of characters, spells, enchantments, personalities, teams, personas, likenesses and special abilities; places, locations, environments, creatures, equipment, magical or supernatural abilities or effects, logos, symbols, or graphic designs; and any other trademark or registered trademark clearly identified as Product identity by the owner of the Product Identity, and which specifically excludes the Open Game Content;
So what is brand identity? It is the collection of things; words, images, trademark, communications and the like. See: Brand Identity Law and Legal Definition | USLegal, Inc. So, for WoTC, Bahamut, the platinum dragon, is part of the identity of Dungeons and Dragons. This Bahamut is not the mythological one, nor the one covered by Square. The concept, and stat block, relationship to the D&D Tiamat makes him/it unique and distinct. And so it fits in narrative and story and settings of D&D. This is covered in Trademark Law in general, but it is in of itself not a trademark.
In the end; WoTC says you cannot use it, and this is the why. Probably not what you want to hear either. Is it overkill? Well if you don't defend your trademarks you can lose them, so I bet by extension that applies to its brand identity. Dndbeyond is following the guidance of WoTC, and summed it up as "Trademark" which isn't technically correct term wise, but is valid from a legal framework. So close enough to make it simple, so folks don't need to learn the legal nuisance's.
I mostly wish I would get some more of an explanation of why something I invested time in is banned and not just one word.
I normally get the problem with too much text is the same, or embedded links. I have never seen the one you hit.
This (copyright/trademark/product identity) is such a confusing area to start with. Putting it into a FAQ would be a help, that errors could point to and we could read through, instead of filling up the forums might be a good idea (if the traffic warranted it...there is a long to do list already)
I mostly wish I would get some more of an explanation of why something I invested time in is banned and not just one word.
Pay attention to Nthal and re-read the SRD if you're still upset about it. They did the courtesy of explaining the policy for you and its relation to who intellectual and creative property works in legal and license space. I don't have Nthal's patience and ability to articulate intellectual property but as soon as I saw the title of your post "I saw what you did there" and the take down was understood based on a very much "everyman" understanding of the SRD.
Why now? We're post Fizban's so a lot of book owners are likely putting the official stats into their homebrew and whoever administers homebrew could well likely have been doing a run through to make sure no one was publishing anything and yours got caught.
Other possibility is you have an enemy who reported it.
Or they're tightening up their policing terms after an audit or a WotC consult or what have you.
The take down wasn't a mistake. The mistake here was publishing it. This wouldn't have been an issue if you kept it private homebrew and used it in your own games. The protection the name Bahamat the Platinum Dragon would have a site governed by SRD rules and WotC licensing shouldn't be too hard to grok. Sorry your work is gone if it's truly gone (no notes, like anywhere?) but again I don't see why you pressed the publish button on this one. Almost all my Homebrew is third party material and I'm careful to avoid that button because I don't want my labor being taken down.
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I mostly wish I would get some more of an explanation of why something I invested time in is banned and not just one word.
Pay attention to Nthal and re-read the SRD if you're still upset about it. They did the courtesy of explaining the policy for you and its relation to who intellectual and creative property works in legal and license space. I don't have Nthal's patience and ability to articulate intellectual property but as soon as I saw the title of your post "I saw what you did there" and the take down was understood based on a very much "everyman" understanding of the SRD.
Why now? We're post Fizban's so a lot of book owners are likely putting the official stats into their homebrew and whoever administers homebrew could well likely have been doing a run through to make sure no one was publishing anything and yours got caught.
Other possibility is you have an enemy who reported it.
Or they're tightening up their policing terms after an audit or a WotC consult or what have you.
The take down wasn't a mistake. The mistake here was publishing it. This wouldn't have been an issue if you kept it private homebrew and used it in your own games. The protection the name Bahamat the Platinum Dragon would have a site governed by SRD rules and WotC licensing shouldn't be too hard to grok. Sorry your work is gone if it's truly gone (no notes, like anywhere?) but again I don't see why you pressed the publish button on this one. Almost all my Homebrew is third party material and I'm careful to avoid that button because I don't want my labor being taken down.
Why wouldn't I publish it. 2 years ago I wanted a companion monster to Tiamat and I designed it with complex interactions, stages, and other features. It's a lot more involved than what's in Fizban.
A proper response would be something like: You can't use Bahamut/Platinum Dragon because it's brand identity. That would make a lot more sense.
Why wouldn't I publish it. 2 years ago I wanted a companion monster to Tiamat and I designed it with complex interactions, stages, and other features. It's a lot more involved than what's in Fizban.
A proper response would be something like: You can't use Bahamut/Platinum Dragon because it's brand identity. That would make a lot more sense.
I agree, that would probably be better, but not clearer to someone who didn't know what that was. The front end designer probably didn't understand the nuance either.
Where I personally have an issue here is this feels like a conflict with this: The Fan Content policy Fan Content Policy | Wizards of the Coast. If you could somehow mark it as "Unofficial" per clause 2, and don't use the real trademarks (Which Bahamut ISN'T) , legally I would think this is fine. But I would need to read DnDBeyonds legal stuff to see if there is a problem there.
That might be were the answer really is, because homebrews require a subscription, (violation of clause 1) so perhaps different legal contracts apply.
I mostly wish I would get some more of an explanation of why something I invested time in is banned and not just one word.
Pay attention to Nthal and re-read the SRD if you're still upset about it. They did the courtesy of explaining the policy for you and its relation to who intellectual and creative property works in legal and license space. I don't have Nthal's patience and ability to articulate intellectual property but as soon as I saw the title of your post "I saw what you did there" and the take down was understood based on a very much "everyman" understanding of the SRD.
Why now? We're post Fizban's so a lot of book owners are likely putting the official stats into their homebrew and whoever administers homebrew could well likely have been doing a run through to make sure no one was publishing anything and yours got caught.
Other possibility is you have an enemy who reported it.
Or they're tightening up their policing terms after an audit or a WotC consult or what have you.
The take down wasn't a mistake. The mistake here was publishing it. This wouldn't have been an issue if you kept it private homebrew and used it in your own games. The protection the name Bahamat the Platinum Dragon would have a site governed by SRD rules and WotC licensing shouldn't be too hard to grok. Sorry your work is gone if it's truly gone (no notes, like anywhere?) but again I don't see why you pressed the publish button on this one. Almost all my Homebrew is third party material and I'm careful to avoid that button because I don't want my labor being taken down.
Why wouldn't I publish it. 2 years ago I wanted a companion monster to Tiamat and I designed it with complex interactions, stages, and other features. It's a lot more involved than what's in Fizban.
A proper response would be something like: You can't use Bahamut/Platinum Dragon because it's brand identity. That would make a lot more sense.
When you publish it, it becomes open to the public with you being the author. You did not create Bahamut the Platinum Dragon, somebody working for TSR did. You created your own version of it which is fine if you keep it in your own collection. When you hit the publish button, you are saying to the world, "Hey, I did this thing!" when you actually just stole the name. That is not OK.
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When you publish it, it becomes open to the public with you being the author. You did not create Bahamut the Platinum Dragon, somebody working for TSR did. You created your own version of it which is fine if you keep it in your own collection. When you hit the publish button, you are saying to the world, "Hey, I did this thing!" when you actually just stole the name. That is not OK.
I agree with the spirit here, especially on originality of the content. But WoTC gave everyone a license to their IP per the link I cited, and that makes this confusing. An example of this confusion is when you look at say "DMSGuild" you can purchase stats for Lolth (this: Lolth-Demon-Queen-of-Spiders ). The author didn't create Lolth, Gary Gygax did and it is part of the IP of WoTC now. But that author (cfloyd37) is selling it and other demons under the terms for DMsguild. So given the rules aren't the same, but the reuse of the IP happens all the time so its confusing. The Fan Content Policy absolutely allows you to do this if you follow the terms and guidance.
Do NOT submit official fifth edition D&D material to public homebrew. (e.g. submitting the “Alert” feat from the Player’s Handbook is NOT permitted as part of public homebrew).
Bahamut now has official stats, and that is the problem. You are a victim of time.
When you publish it, it becomes open to the public with you being the author. You did not create Bahamut the Platinum Dragon, somebody working for TSR did. You created your own version of it which is fine if you keep it in your own collection. When you hit the publish button, you are saying to the world, "Hey, I did this thing!" when you actually just stole the name. That is not OK.
I agree with the spirit here, especially on originality of the content. But WoTC gave everyone a license to their IP per the link I cited, and that makes this confusing. An example of this confusion is when you look at say "DMSGuild" you can purchase stats for Lolth (this: Lolth-Demon-Queen-of-Spiders ). The author didn't create Lolth, Gary Gygax did and it is part of the IP of WoTC now. But that author (cfloyd37) is selling it and other demons under the terms for DMsguild. So given the rules aren't the same, but the reuse of the IP happens all the time so its confusing. The Fan Content Policy absolutely allows you to do this if you follow the terms and guidance.
Do NOT submit official fifth edition D&D material to public homebrew. (e.g. submitting the “Alert” feat from the Player’s Handbook is NOT permitted as part of public homebrew).
Bahamut now has official stats, and that is the problem. You are a victim of time.
You're making it greyer and more complicated than it actually is. DMsGuild you have a greater license to use TSR legacy and WotC content in DMsGuild, which still has some restrictions on creators in terms of what they can and can't use and tone. It's a special case outside of what's granted as discussed so far. If you were to create a homebrew world and put Bahamat the Platinum Dragon in it and put that on DriveThruRPG or tried to float a Kickstarter with your Bahamat as a tease stat, or put it in DnD Beyond, you're in violation.
DMsGuild is de facto like what Dragon Magazine and RPGA's magazine were back in the pre-digital day. You could write about Bahamat, Tiamat, Beholders etc there, but if you were trying to use them in some other venue of publication, cease and desist maybe a seizure writ if you were far along enough in production or profit.
It may seem like angels on head of pin dithering since we're talking about fan products in all cases, but WotC considers DMsGuild its offiical fan content development space so grants more freedom there than anywhere else on the 'net, including official partners.
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You're making it greyer and more complicated than it actually is. DMsGuild you have a greater license to use TSR legacy and WotC content in DMsGuild, which still has some restrictions on creators in terms of what they can and can't use and tone. It's a special case outside of what's granted as discussed so far. If you were to create a homebrew world and put Bahamat the Platinum Dragon in it and put that on DriveThruRPG or tried to float a Kickstarter with your Bahamat as a tease stat, or put it in DnD Beyond, you're in violation.
I called that out specifically: "The rules aren't the same." But for someone that isn't familiar with the details of IP law, you get honest confusion. It's black and white when you see the detail and know it. And its called out in the homebrew link. What is unique in this case, was Bahamut stats became published content recently. Two years ago, this was fine. Now it isn't.
I mostly wish I would get some more of an explanation of why something I invested time in is banned and not just one word.
Pay attention to Nthal and re-read the SRD if you're still upset about it. They did the courtesy of explaining the policy for you and its relation to who intellectual and creative property works in legal and license space. I don't have Nthal's patience and ability to articulate intellectual property but as soon as I saw the title of your post "I saw what you did there" and the take down was understood based on a very much "everyman" understanding of the SRD.
Why now? We're post Fizban's so a lot of book owners are likely putting the official stats into their homebrew and whoever administers homebrew could well likely have been doing a run through to make sure no one was publishing anything and yours got caught.
Other possibility is you have an enemy who reported it.
Or they're tightening up their policing terms after an audit or a WotC consult or what have you.
The take down wasn't a mistake. The mistake here was publishing it. This wouldn't have been an issue if you kept it private homebrew and used it in your own games. The protection the name Bahamat the Platinum Dragon would have a site governed by SRD rules and WotC licensing shouldn't be too hard to grok. Sorry your work is gone if it's truly gone (no notes, like anywhere?) but again I don't see why you pressed the publish button on this one. Almost all my Homebrew is third party material and I'm careful to avoid that button because I don't want my labor being taken down.
Why wouldn't I publish it. 2 years ago I wanted a companion monster to Tiamat and I designed it with complex interactions, stages, and other features. It's a lot more involved than what's in Fizban.
Because you knew Bahamut the Platinum Dragon was sort of a big deal proper noun in D&D lore and the present holder of D&D IP WOTC takes that stuff pretty seriously if you were actually familiar with the SRD, DMsGuild guidelines or have heard various airings of content being taken down for various proprietary reasons. In that context you might also become aware of "personal use" and how D&D Beyond's Homebrew Policies are actually very generous in that regard.
Evidently you weren't aware; but now you have hopefully a better understanding of how the world works in some regard.
By the by, claiming you homebrew was better than what was published in Fizban's doesn't help your case. If anything that claim can be construed as posing your work as competitive with the WotC material and that would definitely bring out the nuke button here at DDB.
A proper response would be something like: You can't use Bahamut/Platinum Dragon because it's brand identity. That would make a lot more sense.
The take down notices are global/form communications. The content gets flagged, and reviewed, and an automated message is set your way to let you know it's been taken down. They don't send a nuanced communication to every user who gets something deleted. Again, personally, while I sympathise with you rueing the loss of your work, I'm a little surprised the "why" of it all had to explained in the depth that it did.
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I recieved a notice that my Homebrew, that has existed for 2 years unmolested, was no rejected for "Trademark".
What? What trademark? What did I use? Moderator? Anyone?
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Bahamut is trademarked by WotC.
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Also might want to check your wording there.
Bahamut is an old monster from Turkish mythology. They can't trademark that.
It's also used in countless other places, see Final Fantasy VII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahamut
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Elaborate, please.
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Bahamut in Turkish mythology, an angel that holds up the world, is one thing. Feel free to use this as much as you want.
Bahamut the Platinum Dragon is a D&D thing and copyrighted.
There is significant difference.
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What the original meaning of Bahamut is covered here: Bahamut - Wikipedia. But it isn't interesting for this discussion. It is neither copyrighted, or trademarked though. It is part of a brand identity that WoTC has staked a claim that has not been specifically found by a court or other body as not being theirs.
So is Bahamut actually trademarked or copyrighted by WoTC? No, but it IS protected as a product identity or more commonly called a Brand Identity. See the SRD page 1. (Microsoft Word - SRD-OGL_V1.1.docx (wizards.com))
So what is brand identity? It is the collection of things; words, images, trademark, communications and the like. See: Brand Identity Law and Legal Definition | USLegal, Inc. So, for WoTC, Bahamut, the platinum dragon, is part of the identity of Dungeons and Dragons. This Bahamut is not the mythological one, nor the one covered by Square. The concept, and stat block, relationship to the D&D Tiamat makes him/it unique and distinct. And so it fits in narrative and story and settings of D&D. This is covered in Trademark Law in general, but it is in of itself not a trademark.
In the end; WoTC says you cannot use it, and this is the why. Probably not what you want to hear either. Is it overkill? Well if you don't defend your trademarks you can lose them, so I bet by extension that applies to its brand identity. Dndbeyond is following the guidance of WoTC, and summed it up as "Trademark" which isn't technically correct term wise, but is valid from a legal framework. So close enough to make it simple, so folks don't need to learn the legal nuisance's.
I mostly wish I would get some more of an explanation of why something I invested time in is banned and not just one word.
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I normally get the problem with too much text is the same, or embedded links. I have never seen the one you hit.
This (copyright/trademark/product identity) is such a confusing area to start with. Putting it into a FAQ would be a help, that errors could point to and we could read through, instead of filling up the forums might be a good idea (if the traffic warranted it...there is a long to do list already)
Pay attention to Nthal and re-read the SRD if you're still upset about it. They did the courtesy of explaining the policy for you and its relation to who intellectual and creative property works in legal and license space. I don't have Nthal's patience and ability to articulate intellectual property but as soon as I saw the title of your post "I saw what you did there" and the take down was understood based on a very much "everyman" understanding of the SRD.
Why now? We're post Fizban's so a lot of book owners are likely putting the official stats into their homebrew and whoever administers homebrew could well likely have been doing a run through to make sure no one was publishing anything and yours got caught.
Other possibility is you have an enemy who reported it.
Or they're tightening up their policing terms after an audit or a WotC consult or what have you.
The take down wasn't a mistake. The mistake here was publishing it. This wouldn't have been an issue if you kept it private homebrew and used it in your own games. The protection the name Bahamat the Platinum Dragon would have a site governed by SRD rules and WotC licensing shouldn't be too hard to grok. Sorry your work is gone if it's truly gone (no notes, like anywhere?) but again I don't see why you pressed the publish button on this one. Almost all my Homebrew is third party material and I'm careful to avoid that button because I don't want my labor being taken down.
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Why wouldn't I publish it. 2 years ago I wanted a companion monster to Tiamat and I designed it with complex interactions, stages, and other features. It's a lot more involved than what's in Fizban.
A proper response would be something like: You can't use Bahamut/Platinum Dragon because it's brand identity. That would make a lot more sense.
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I agree, that would probably be better, but not clearer to someone who didn't know what that was. The front end designer probably didn't understand the nuance either.
Where I personally have an issue here is this feels like a conflict with this: The Fan Content policy Fan Content Policy | Wizards of the Coast. If you could somehow mark it as "Unofficial" per clause 2, and don't use the real trademarks (Which Bahamut ISN'T) , legally I would think this is fine. But I would need to read DnDBeyonds legal stuff to see if there is a problem there.
That might be were the answer really is, because homebrews require a subscription, (violation of clause 1) so perhaps different legal contracts apply.
When you publish it, it becomes open to the public with you being the author. You did not create Bahamut the Platinum Dragon, somebody working for TSR did. You created your own version of it which is fine if you keep it in your own collection. When you hit the publish button, you are saying to the world, "Hey, I did this thing!" when you actually just stole the name. That is not OK.
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Question out of curiosity:
Was your version Good Aligned? Did it have spells? What kind of breath weapon did it have?
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I agree with the spirit here, especially on originality of the content. But WoTC gave everyone a license to their IP per the link I cited, and that makes this confusing. An example of this confusion is when you look at say "DMSGuild" you can purchase stats for Lolth (this: Lolth-Demon-Queen-of-Spiders ). The author didn't create Lolth, Gary Gygax did and it is part of the IP of WoTC now. But that author (cfloyd37) is selling it and other demons under the terms for DMsguild. So given the rules aren't the same, but the reuse of the IP happens all the time so its confusing. The Fan Content Policy absolutely allows you to do this if you follow the terms and guidance.
So...there WAS a page for this for DndBeyond, but its gone: http://www.dndbeyond.com/homebrew-rules-guidelines (found in the first post in homebrew: Everything you need to know about Homebrew (Tutorials & FAQ) - Homebrew & House Rules - Dungeons & Dragons Discussion - D&D Beyond Forums - D&D Beyond (dndbeyond.com)) That probably needs to be fixed.
EDIT: Found it and found the problem: The link is Homebrew Rules & Guidelines - - D&D Beyond (dndbeyond.com)
The problem is this:
Bahamut now has official stats, and that is the problem. You are a victim of time.
You're making it greyer and more complicated than it actually is. DMsGuild you have a greater license to use TSR legacy and WotC content in DMsGuild, which still has some restrictions on creators in terms of what they can and can't use and tone. It's a special case outside of what's granted as discussed so far. If you were to create a homebrew world and put Bahamat the Platinum Dragon in it and put that on DriveThruRPG or tried to float a Kickstarter with your Bahamat as a tease stat, or put it in DnD Beyond, you're in violation.
DMsGuild is de facto like what Dragon Magazine and RPGA's magazine were back in the pre-digital day. You could write about Bahamat, Tiamat, Beholders etc there, but if you were trying to use them in some other venue of publication, cease and desist maybe a seizure writ if you were far along enough in production or profit.
It may seem like angels on head of pin dithering since we're talking about fan products in all cases, but WotC considers DMsGuild its offiical fan content development space so grants more freedom there than anywhere else on the 'net, including official partners.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
I called that out specifically: "The rules aren't the same." But for someone that isn't familiar with the details of IP law, you get honest confusion. It's black and white when you see the detail and know it. And its called out in the homebrew link. What is unique in this case, was Bahamut stats became published content recently. Two years ago, this was fine. Now it isn't.
But this horse is dead.
Because you knew Bahamut the Platinum Dragon was sort of a big deal proper noun in D&D lore and the present holder of D&D IP WOTC takes that stuff pretty seriously if you were actually familiar with the SRD, DMsGuild guidelines or have heard various airings of content being taken down for various proprietary reasons. In that context you might also become aware of "personal use" and how D&D Beyond's Homebrew Policies are actually very generous in that regard.
Evidently you weren't aware; but now you have hopefully a better understanding of how the world works in some regard.
By the by, claiming you homebrew was better than what was published in Fizban's doesn't help your case. If anything that claim can be construed as posing your work as competitive with the WotC material and that would definitely bring out the nuke button here at DDB.
The take down notices are global/form communications. The content gets flagged, and reviewed, and an automated message is set your way to let you know it's been taken down. They don't send a nuanced communication to every user who gets something deleted. Again, personally, while I sympathise with you rueing the loss of your work, I'm a little surprised the "why" of it all had to explained in the depth that it did.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.