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While this is crappy, it is the default behavior of most large companies when it comes to copyright. As people have described I mistakenly said that copyright m

While this is crappy, it is the default behavior of most large companies when it comes to copyright. As people have described I mistakenly said that copyright must be enforced or it is lost. Agreed I was confusing it with trademark. Despite that, I see many companies treating copyright the same and harassing all copyright infringers with abandon even if it is harmless. I will also share another story. Some years ago I owned n64.org. I ran a fan website of Nintendo 64 games there. It was quite popular. I was underage ( < 18 ) at the time I bought the domain, and I bought the domain before NOA registered "n64" as a trademark. NOA threatened to sue me for the domain. I refused as their claim that people would think my fan site was the official Nintendo site was entirely nonsense. In the end they wrote a check to me for like $50 or something equally ridiculous. Nintendo is not your friend. They don't do a good job taking care of their fans. They will happily sue or threaten you for doing anything they don't happen to like.

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ninjin 7y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I am nearly 100% sure that what you are talking about is trademark protection [1] rather than copyright, people get these wrong frequently. As far as I know, you can enforce your copyright completely arbitrarily. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Maintaining_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Maintaining_rights
massive-tea 7y ago
Are you getting confused with trademarks? When has an entity "lost copyright" due to not enforcing it?
tty2300 7y ago
I have heard they have been super aggressive about takedowns on YouTube videos showing switch modding even though there are no copyright violations
erfgh 7y ago
I don't know why anyone would want Nintendo to be their friend.
onion2k 7y ago
You don't lose copyright if you don't defend against infringements. You're thinking of a trademark. You do lose a trademark if you abandon it. Nintendo could ignore this copyright infringement and still sue everyone else if they wanted to. Regardless of that though, a rights holder can defend their right by issuing a takedown (like this DMCA notice) or by stating the infringement is officially acceptable (and pretty cool.) It doesn't always have to be negative.

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ninjin 7y ago

I am not a lawyer, but I am nearly 100% sure that what you are talking about is trademark protection [1] rather than copyright, people get these wrong frequently. As far as I know, you can enforce your copyright completely arbitrarily. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Maintaining_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Maintaining_rights

massive-tea 7y ago

Are you getting confused with trademarks? When has an entity "lost copyright" due to not enforcing it?

tty2300 7y ago

I have heard they have been super aggressive about takedowns on YouTube videos showing switch modding even though there are no copyright violations

erfgh 7y ago

I don't know why anyone would want Nintendo to be their friend.

onion2k 7y ago

You don't lose copyright if you don't defend against infringements. You're thinking of a trademark. You do lose a trademark if you abandon it. Nintendo could ignore this copyright infringement and still sue everyone else if they wanted to. Regardless of that though, a rights holder can defend their right by issuing a takedown (like this DMCA notice) or by stating the infringement is officially acceptable (and pretty cool.) It doesn't always have to be negative.