Kickstarter: Making the Mafia Look Like Chucky Cheese Since 2009

The link to the copyright dispute certainly seems easy to understand

https://www.kickstarter.com/dmca/goblins-alternate-realities...

If this is correct, then Kickstarter profits off the theft of someone else's IP, and damages the original content creators business.

But being American, isn't this just the sort of things people get sued for damages over?