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Nintendo also fought off a claim in 1983 by Universal Pictures that Donkey Kong was a derivative element of their King Kong in Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd.; notably, Nintendo's lawyer, John Kirby, became the namesake of Kirby in honor of the successful defense.
Blockbuster publicly accused Nintendo of starting the lawsuit after being excluded from the Computer Software Rental Amendments Act, which prohibited the rental of computer software but allowed the rental of Nintendo's game cartridges. Nintendo responded that they were enforcing their copyright as an essential foundation of the video game industry.
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[16] [18] In the Handbook of Intellectual Property Claims and Remedies, the author Patrick J. Flinn argued that Nintendo failed to take into account a fair use analysis, and that there was no real evidence that the Game Genie hurt their business. [19] Galoob v Nintendo signaled a change in the legality of third party game products of all kinds ...
The claim: Nintendo sued a young boy and his family for $200 million for creating a cardboard Nintendo Gameboy ... There is no evidence of a cease-and-desist order or a $200 million lawsuit, and ...
Yuzu, the most popular Nintendo Switch emulator to date, has closed up shop and agreed to pay Nintendo $2.4 million after the latter sued the developers behind the emulator for breaching the ...
Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. was a 1983 legal case heard by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by Judge Robert W. Sweet. In their complaint, Universal Studios alleged that Nintendo 's video game Donkey Kong was a trademark infringement of King Kong , the plot and characters of which ...
John Joseph Kirby Jr. (October 22, 1939 – October 2, 2019) was an American attorney. He was most notable for his successful defense for Nintendo against Universal Studios over the copyrightability of the character Donkey Kong in 1984, from which Nintendo subsequently named the character Kirby to honor him.