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JWeinCom on 10 August 2016
KLAMarine said:

Nintendo's fighting a losing battle. This thing's on the net, there's no getting it out of there.

If in fact this DMCA was issued by Nintendo. I recall reading recently of people posing as Nintendo and issuing C&Ds.

I doubt that they really care if it's on the net or not.

If you have a trademark, metroid for instance, that trademark could be lost if you do not show that you are actively defending it.  Nintendo's probably just making a token effort to make sure they maintain the trademark.



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Paatar on 10 August 2016

Sure Nintendo needs to treat the Metroid franchise better but come on people. Don't mess with their IPs. Just because some fan made it doesn't make it any different than if a company made it. It's not their IP, so don't do anything with it.

Just because it's fan made doesn't mean it's immune to getting taken down.



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KLAMarine on 10 August 2016
MTZehvor said:
KLAMarine said:

Nintendo's fighting a losing battle. This thing's on the net, there's no getting it out of there.

If in fact this DMCA was issued by Nintendo. I recall reading recently of people posing as Nintendo and issuing C&Ds.

Sadly, it is. The developer confirmed it was real and removed the download link from his website.

Well here's to the game getting in as many people's hands as possible regardless.



KLAMarine on 10 August 2016
JWeinCom said:
KLAMarine said:

Nintendo's fighting a losing battle. This thing's on the net, there's no getting it out of there.

If in fact this DMCA was issued by Nintendo. I recall reading recently of people posing as Nintendo and issuing C&Ds.

I doubt that they really care if it's on the net or not.

If you have a trademark, metroid for instance, that trademark could be lost if you do not show that you are actively defending it.  Nintendo's probably just making a token effort to make sure they maintain the trademark.

Oh wow, I had no idea that was a thing. Thanks for the info!



MDMAlliance on 10 August 2016
JWeinCom said:
KLAMarine said:

Nintendo's fighting a losing battle. This thing's on the net, there's no getting it out of there.

If in fact this DMCA was issued by Nintendo. I recall reading recently of people posing as Nintendo and issuing C&Ds.

I doubt that they really care if it's on the net or not.

If you have a trademark, metroid for instance, that trademark could be lost if you do not show that you are actively defending it.  Nintendo's probably just making a token effort to make sure they maintain the trademark.

This was something I wanted to bring up if no one else did, but also something I wanted to look more into after reading all the replies.  After doing maybe 15-20 minutes of research, what I've learned is that it requires a bit more than that to actually risk losing the trademark.  Though for something like Metroid, it could be plausible, but seems slightly improbable.  Nintendo's probably handling it the way they are to keep their IPs "clean."



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Kai_Mao on 10 August 2016

Probably would've been best to utilize different assets (or completely different characters, environments, and enemies) from stuff from Zero Mission. Granted I haven't played the original in a long time nor have played the remake to see if they used Zero Mission assets or something similar.

All of these things about copyright/trademark are becoming less black and white than I realized. Especially, since we're dealing with an international IP.



JWeinCom on 11 August 2016
MDMAlliance said:
JWeinCom said:

I doubt that they really care if it's on the net or not.

If you have a trademark, metroid for instance, that trademark could be lost if you do not show that you are actively defending it.  Nintendo's probably just making a token effort to make sure they maintain the trademark.

This was something I wanted to bring up if no one else did, but also something I wanted to look more into after reading all the replies.  After doing maybe 15-20 minutes of research, what I've learned is that it requires a bit more than that to actually risk losing the trademark.  Though for something like Metroid, it could be plausible, but seems slightly improbable.  Nintendo's probably handling it the way they are to keep their IPs "clean."

It's really unlikely that a trademark like this would be lost... But, if Nintendo just totally allowed every fan game to be be made without question, then it could happen.  They have to defend it sometimes, and when you're actually making a replica of their game, that's probably going to be a problem, especially if it becomes popular.