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IANAL For those who are saying that Nintendo is dumb, copyright/trademark laws compel you to defend your copyrights/trademarks in most places - especially the
by deafpolygon 4y ago
IANAL
For those who are saying that Nintendo is dumb, copyright/trademark laws compel you to defend your copyrights/trademarks in most places - especially the US, and especially when said copyright is older (Mario is going on 41 years). Yes, I am aware that copyright != trademark and vice versa, but they overlap in many places.
Not doing so, makes it harder to protect your trademarks in the future. While copyrights never truly expire (they can after some time, around 70 years?).
- DoItToMe81 4y agoYou don't lose your copyright for not taking down every copy of something online. That's absurd.
- deafpolygon 4y agoIt is not that you lose your copyright, but your trademark (sometimes your copyright) becomes harder to defend if you don't actively protect it. Sometimes the terminology is blurry and it's not clear when someone means copyright or trademark. Nintendo is doing this to protect their trademark (Nintendo, et. al.).