Poll: Does Nintendo need to back down their copyright

[UltraSUPRA]

The only good thing about Bowsette is that I have downloaded fanart of her flipping the bird.

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

The only good thing about Bowsette is that I have downloaded fanart of her flipping the bird.

I mean, some of the r34 was pretty nice

 

[UltraSUPRA]

I mean, some of the r34 was pretty nice

Horny police!! Get him!!

 

[ClancyDaEnlightened]

Nintendo had enough balls to play apple:

 

[Subtle Demise]

Here's the thing: Nintendo has the legal right to prosecute everyone and anyone that uses their IP without their permission. This can range from someone using a Nintendo character on their bakery shop to a videogame publishing company including Mario in one of their titles without Nintendo's permission.

And then the issue of copyright:

I mean, even using a profile image with a Nintendo character is copyright infringement, and so is uploading gameplay videos under most circumstances, even if youtubers insert a "fair use" notice at the beginning of the video. Sharing memes that feature Nintendo characters is also copyright infringement. Nintendo could very well strike these down. There'd outrage, but they're within their legal right to remove from the internet (or any other medium) any unauthorized reproductions of their IP. They're protecting it from "pirates", after all. The first Super Mario game was released in 1985, which means it'll enter the public domain in 2080, and that's assuming the Congress of the US doesn't approve any more retroactive copyright extensions. That's insanity.

This isn't a problem with Nintendo, this is a problem with copyright.

A lot of that is trademark stuff, which is nowhere near the realm of copyright violations, and only applies to competing businesses. However, the DMCA grants companies a broad interpretation of what copyright is and grants little to no recourse to those accused of violating it.

 

[Supernova89]

It's a double edge sword, I guess when you're Nintendo and you got beloved ip's you'll do everything in your power to protect it.

 

[chrisrlink]

sorry for the necro just be glad nintendo isn't korean you think just copyrighting Pokemon would be bad enough under Korean Law they can copyright a specific game mechanic/genre/idea so instead of just Pokemon they would copyright Monster catching/taming rpg then no more pokemon clones at least in S.Korea why did you think bluehole wanted to fight epic on their home turf so baddly and not America? because they would've won there but got laughed out of court here