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"NES" is trademarked. And they are using copyrighted assets, from Mario and Pokemon.
by koboll 8y ago
"NES" is trademarked. And they are using copyrighted assets, from Mario and Pokemon.
- tptacek 8y agoCopyrighted or trademarked? If they drew the Mario or the Pokemon (or got it from someone else who drew it and published it with a liberal license) it's not a copyvio.
- edoceo 8y ago"copyvio" A violation of copyright laws: copyright infringement. Was a new word for me, from Wiktionary
- pvg 8y agoIt is terribad.
- tptacek 8y agoIt's not a word, just a WP shorthand.
- pvg 8y agoYes. But this is not 'Nam and there are specific and precise rules. These constructs were already bad and ominous-sounding back when Orwell satirized them. Nazi, Stasi, politburo, COINTELPRO, manipedi. In some specialized contexts, like Wikipedia talk pages, they are arguably unavoidable but still bad. Out in the wild they are terribad.
- tptacek 8y agoI'm not defending it! I wrote it out of laziness. Though I find what you did to Walter Sobchak there more offensive. It's not 'Nam and there are rules, or it isn't and there aren't! This isn't 'Nam, 'pvg! There are rules! Am I the only one here who gives a shit about the rules!?
- scrollaway 8y ago"NES" is not trademarked, outside of "oils and essential oils". http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:hhioq9.2.15 http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:hhi... You're thinking of Nintendo Entertainment System. http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:hhioq9.4.2 http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:hhi... Happy to be proven wrong if you can find the matching one. As for the copyrighted assets… where? In the demo? Those aren't in the code FWICS. (Edit: and as tptacek says, they're not original assets either, which makes this a similar scenario as having a github logo in an icon font)
- hcs 8y agoHeh, apparently Nintendo did have NES, but it was cancelled in 2016: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=74013303&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=74013303&caseType=SERIAL_N...
- scrollaway 8y agoInteresting! I only looked at live trademarks, explains how I missed that. And I still don't know why the hell people are downvoting this whole thread without providing any actual retort…