99% plagiarism of Mario Kart Wii!

[Prometheus]

^ The picture showing the advertised controller (the one with the other controllers and consoles in-shot with it) has no logo. :blink:


I was wondering who was making those things, though. They seem to pop up a lot!

Not the box, the controller itself. It's molded into the plastic where the Super Nintendo logo would be on the Nintendo-made controller.

Oh, wow, that is badness. :blink: What a cheek!

Hmm... not sure how I feel about that. While it is pretty obvious the tracks were lifted from Mario Kart, that is a copy into their game, not into the video. The video itself was no more infringing on Nintendo's copyright than a letsplay or similar; even less so, actually, since it was at least all new textures.


If someone makes a texture mod and then puts a video on youtube, should Nintendo have the right to have that video pulled for copyright infringement? From my understanding of copyright, the answer is no, they shouldn't. Trademark yes, but not copyright.


Put another way, if you make a machine, and then I steal the blueprints and make a copy of that machine with a different coat of paint and then video tape the machine in operation, am I violating copyright by recording the machine in operation, or is it just when I built the machine? I'm pretty sure it is the latter, that copyright was infringed upon only with the duplicate machine and that my video of the machine is not infringing on your original copyright at all.

Hmm... not sure how I feel about that. While it is pretty obvious the tracks were lifted from Mario Kart, that is a copy into their game, not into the video. The video itself was no more infringing on Nintendo's copyright than a letsplay or similar; even less so, actually, since it was at least all new textures.


If someone makes a texture mod and then puts a video on youtube, should Nintendo have the right to have that video pulled for copyright infringement? From my understanding of copyright, the answer is no, they shouldn't. Trademark yes, but not copyright.


Put another way, if you make a machine, and then I steal the blueprints and make a copy of that machine with a different coat of paint and then video tape the machine in operation, am I violating copyright by recording the machine in operation, or is it just when I built the machine? I'm pretty sure it is the latter, that copyright was infringed upon only with the duplicate machine and that my video of the machine is not infringing on your original copyright at all.

Agreed. Nintendo should have every right to go after the game itself (provided they can prove a case) but taking down the video should not be within their rights. It is mere evidence of the existence of something. This sort of behaviour is only going to get uglier if SOPA goes through.

I'm guessing that they had it pulled across the board due to it being an advertisement for an infringing product (even though in this particular case, it was a re-upload by a user, specifically intended to show that things were being ripped off - I haven't looked, but I would bet that they're all gone, at least for now, regardless of who uploaded it). Not that I necessarily agree with it - I'm just looking at it from the "automated-lawyers" perspective.


I sort of suspect that a home-made video showing the game and its infringingness wouldn't have fallen victim to being removed.

 

[fatman514]

^ It's not a modification, or for the Wii at all... It's a release for Apple's App Store. The logo's pretty clear there at the end of the video.


The video very clearly shows that the tracks, which I listed in another post, are ripped directly from Mario Kart Wii.


So, there are no horses to be holding - taking someone else's tracks from their game on a different system, and putting them into a look-alike game to be sold on another one entirely is not what would fall under the term "tribute".

I guess I should've watched the whole video, before it was pulled haha. I failed to do so, so I missed the App store/ios logo. I guess you could say my previous comment is completely irrelevant now lol.


Commercial piracy is just theft plain and simple. Plagiarism is wrong period, with or without monetary gain. The problem is if this was a Chinese "made" knockoff then the offenders will most likely get a slap on the wrist for this as China has very lax copyright laws, not to mention piracy/counterfeiting is extremely rampant there and the government really can't control it.

 

[DaMummy]

this game is now free....

 

[Prometheus]

That doesn't solve the issue of copyright infringement, though. :blink: