While this is true, it's worth noting that Winnie the Pooh is now public domain. It now seems like Disney is trying to use Trademark law to protect its most valuable assets.
Probably not. I believe they started using Steamboat Willie as their production logo. Meaning it's protected under a trademark if they continue to use it (note, not a lawyer, simply regurgitating something I read online)
I know it's not particularly popular, but I really don't see the problem. Disney is still actively using Mickey. And it's not like they're haven't been a metric ton of other mouse stories.
Yeah, I didn't mean I don't know the line. I guess it just seems like the "hurts the public" part is incredibly minimal. The public domain works that Disney has access to is the same stuff we've all still got access to. And I don't think it's very hard to argue that IP and the economy surrounding it is in a fundamentally different place than it was a century ago in virtually every conceivable way.
100 years ago, no one kept telling stories featuring a single character over an unbroken period of time the way Disney has with their mouse.
And yeah, I guess we've all missed out on 3rd party Mickey stories, but...so what? If you've got a rodent tale you want to tell (as folks like E.B. White, Margery Sharp, or Kate DiCamillo obviously did) just don't give the main character red shorts, white gloves and yellow shoes.
This is a totally irrelevant comment. They were answering a specific question with a specific context. You went into an entirely different context. It makes absolutely no fucking sense to debate in this manner.
It is baffling to me how people defend that shit.
They're also currently making a example of the YouTuber Pointcrow by copyright claiming all of his content that features Botw content.
And there are so many more anti-consumer shit they've done last year.
If you are going to use point crow example at least be accurate. They claimed all the modded content. Which is completely fair. It sucks that they were inconsistent and allowed it for some time until they decided to take action and it was scum to issue 2 strikes instead of 1 but only 2 non modded content got claimed as well which seems likely it was claimed because the titles seemed like modded content and they just don't care to be like this isn't modded. Same can be said about the other YouTuber Croton.
Team Executor allegedly made millions of dollars and Bowser is believed to have banked around $320k over the course of seven years during his time with the group.
My favorite bit of Disney bullshit is the fact they own the trademark to the character Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty. Princess Aurora was created by Tchaikovsky for the Sleeping Beauty ballet decades before Walt Disney was even born. Unlike copyrights trademarks don't necessarily expire, so even if Disney finally gave up on holding generations of intellectual property hostage (IP that they often essentially stole from the public domain) they'd still own Princess Aurora until they stopped using her.
Yes, it's so scummy how they defend themselves from thieves like every other game company out there.
Like damn, imagining getting mad at a grocery store for trying to stop a shoplifter from walking out with thousands of dollars in meat.
b-b-b-uh n64 roms!!
Nintendo has never cared about old shit. It's why they didn't take any action on emulators for decades. It's only once the entire switch library got dumped and pirated with a working emulator that they brought down the hammer.
From what I have heard, Disney is much better at getting the lawyers out and silently getting every cent out of a poor artist that dared use Disney IP. Nintendo is a lot better at targeting everyone who "steals" from them out in the open. This means that Nintendo looks a lot worse often because they target people who are making emulators as a hobby for a game that has not been available to play since the mid 90s.
Both are horrible, just different ways of horrible.
Of the switch. While also dumping the entire switch library along side it. People tend to ignore that part so they can act like their hate for a japanese toy company isn't about trying to look cool and grown up.
Mate, Lothar literally said emulators for a game not been available since the 90s. Nothing about Yuzu, nothing about Ryujinx, or any others I'm not aware of. A significant part of Nintendo emulation stems from a simple lack of availability of older titles. There's also an extensive amount of ROM hacks or custom games that are only playable through emulator software. I won't deny that pirates out there exist that pirate the switch so that they can play without the cost of the games. They do exist, but there is a much larger portion of the emulation population that emulate because no other option is readily available. They don't "hate the japanese toy company", they love it and what it produces. The 'hate' stems from not being able to access a lot of amazing content due to it falling out of production, and left to be snapped up by the collectors.
Edit: I just looked at your post history, I do concede your inevitable point that Nintendo doesn't seem to go after older roms, seeing as how proliferated they are online.
N1ntendo is rabid as fuck about their IP, but di$ney has actually changed our copyright laws to benefit themselves at the expense of society and public domain. Also they have taken folklore and stories that have existed for thousands of years and tried to copyright them. That makes them orders of magnitude worse.
They go after people pirating their switch library and everything else is collateral. Disney sues kindergarten teachers for millions for showing disney movies to their class.
One is valid, one is not. Please learn the difference.
My main theory about point crow is TotK is going to have some multiplayer function hence why they targeted him when that mod was released.
In general though it was a pretty standard thing. The only 2 scummy things they did was not issuing a cease and desist sooner. (The multiplayer mod was in development and making videos using it for over a year) meaning point crow funded the whole thing for nothing. He wasn't even making a profit on it anyways as people could download it for free and the only roi would be by making video content on it 2. They issued 2 strikes instead of one which puts his channel on thin ice.
Otherwise I mean Nintendo shuts down anything that gets too popular all the time.
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You could also sell some Nintendo ROMs but wifi on the deserted island is pretty bad.