Yurya
Smash Apprentice
- Joined
- Oct 23, 2012
- Messages
- 187
Remember that Nintendo is based in Japan where free speech is not such a wide spread idea. If that clears up Nintendo's actions on Miiverse.
Now copyright law works, for the most part, across nation boundaries and prohibits distribution of copyrighted material. PM cannot (without legitimate risk of legislation) distribute anything copyrighted (for an item to be copyrighted in the US it just needs to be created). This means that the PMBR cannot distribute any original content of Nintendo's. What they do distribute is their own created files; you still need Brawl, a Wii, and to acquire an SD card.
Now intellectual property (ideas) are also copyrighted and protected from reuse if it can be shown the copier had access to the original content. What poodoas was saying about returning Melee stages is a legitimate concern here as it is pretty clear the PMBR were very aware of Melee when creating PM. What had protected PM thus far is the fact that none of this is done for profit (not by the PMBR, streamers like VGBC, and tournament winners are separate).
The simple idea of modding in game characters isn't illegal but once ideas are "cut & pasted" from other games it does begin to broach copyrights. Melee & 64 stages, Roy and Mewtwo's movesets are "issues" that may broach Intellectual Property rights.
That said 3.0 is already released and even if Nintendo does send a cease and desist it won't stop copies from being available or make a person guilty for using them.
Now copyright law works, for the most part, across nation boundaries and prohibits distribution of copyrighted material. PM cannot (without legitimate risk of legislation) distribute anything copyrighted (for an item to be copyrighted in the US it just needs to be created). This means that the PMBR cannot distribute any original content of Nintendo's. What they do distribute is their own created files; you still need Brawl, a Wii, and to acquire an SD card.
Now intellectual property (ideas) are also copyrighted and protected from reuse if it can be shown the copier had access to the original content. What poodoas was saying about returning Melee stages is a legitimate concern here as it is pretty clear the PMBR were very aware of Melee when creating PM. What had protected PM thus far is the fact that none of this is done for profit (not by the PMBR, streamers like VGBC, and tournament winners are separate).
The simple idea of modding in game characters isn't illegal but once ideas are "cut & pasted" from other games it does begin to broach copyrights. Melee & 64 stages, Roy and Mewtwo's movesets are "issues" that may broach Intellectual Property rights.
That said 3.0 is already released and even if Nintendo does send a cease and desist it won't stop copies from being available or make a person guilty for using them.