The Global Announcement You've All Been Waiting For

aero · Postby **aero** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 4:35 pm

SnifitGuy wrote:unless by some chance that Nintendo copyrighted the use of those names in any code whatsoever, lol.

You can't copyright words, and generic terms cannot be trademarked. It makes it so Nintendo doesn't own "Mario" but it does own "Super Mario Bros." It's best to scrub everything though because associating other generic terms like "Mario" and "Toad" and "Luigi" can bring up a case against you.

aero · Postby **aero** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 11:01 am

"Super Mario Bros" is protected by trademark law, not copyright. "Mario" is a generic name, but "Super Mario Bros." is a distinct franchise protected by law.

To put it simply: copyright protects IP, and trademarks protect brands and terms.

Artemis008 · Postby **Artemis008** » Wed Jul 27, 2016 2:06 am

SnifitGuy wrote:
Joey wrote:Aero: Yeah, that's what we were going to do. The problem is that it simply hasn't happened.
Technically speaking, all the playable character's names (minus link) can stay because they aren't made up compared to Bowser, Goomba, Bullet Bill, etc. and therefore Nintendo does not own those names. I mean, you could change the graphics and it would legally be fine, unless by some chance that Nintendo copyrighted the use of those names in any code whatsoever, lol.

Just like what all those shitty Chinese bootlegs do.
I would rather have the names changed too so they wouldn't end up as Mario rip-offs.

aero · Postby **aero** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 2:01 am

Joey's coming back soon. Hide the weed.

FanofSMBX · Postby **FanofSMBX** » Fri Aug 05, 2016 7:11 pm

Has there been any news on this? Because this isn't the first time Redigit's "returned", and with SMBX 2.0 and TI3 being worked on SMBX being opensource seems more important than ever.

Postby **Shadow Yoshi** » Fri Aug 05, 2016 8:21 pm

No news, and there likely won't be any.

Horikawa mentioned to me (and probably publically) at one point that the source code is not really necessary to SMBX 2.0's development.

Danny · Postby **Danny** » Fri Aug 05, 2016 10:55 pm

AeroMatter wrote:"Super Mario Bros" is protected by trademark law, not copyright. "Mario" is a generic name, but "Super Mario Bros." is a distinct franchise protected by law.

To put it simply: copyright protects IP, and trademarks protect brands and terms.

Off topic, but does anyone remember that time when King tried to put a copyright protection on the word "Candy" for Candy Crush Saga? I do. If that actually got pushed and allowed, do you know how many companies that would screw over?

Mable · Postby **Mable** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 8:26 am

King was allowed to copyright the word candy, in order to protect his game.. altough he later dropped it tho.

G-Boy · Postby **G-Boy** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 4:03 pm

Joey wrote:No news, and there likely won't be any.

Horikawa mentioned to me (and probably publically) at one point that the source code is not really necessary to SMBX 2.0's development.

I suggest that this thread should be locked if there won't be more news.

HeroOfRhyme · Postby **HeroOfRhyme** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 4:22 pm

i think you should leave the locking up to joey since thats what he is best at

Danny · Postby **Danny** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 4:43 pm

Tinkerbell wrote:King was allowed to copyright the word candy, in order to protect his game.. altough he later dropped it tho.

They were never able to copyright the word I believe, at least they weren't able to in the U.S., I think they did in Europe? You can still screw everyone over.

HeroOfRhyme wrote:i think you should leave the locking up to joey since thats what he is best at

HeroOfRhyme · Postby **HeroOfRhyme** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 4:47 pm

lmao danny

Danny · Postby **Danny** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 5:07 pm

SnifitGuy wrote:Anyone hear of the copyright over the term Pixels? There was a whole situation regarding that and a particular media sharing site, though I don't remember which one. Point is, every video with Pixels in the title was removed for copyright.

I feel that this can garner discussion, so lets move it out of this thread.