Nintendo, which has created many world-famous IPS such as Mario, Pikachu and Kabi, even people who don't play games know a little about these classic images. This century-old shop in Kyoto, as early as 30 years ago, made the world feel the charm of the game with excellent creativity. Even outside the game industry, they have a proud record in many fields, the most famous of which is Nintendo's strongest legal department.
The legal department of general enterprises is basically the position of legal adviser, which is mainly responsible for dealing with established legal issues such as contract terms. However, Nintendo's legal department is extremely fierce. No matter how powerful the background is, when the company heard that it was warned by Nintendo's lawyer's letter, it began to tremble unconsciously, as if an angry giant suddenly appeared on the wall symbolizing peace and tranquility. Since entering the game industry, Nintendo has always held a very high winning rate in numerous lawsuits, and it can even be said that it has hardly lost. Today, let's talk about the legend of Nintendo's strongest legal department and see how it became the strongest in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Nintendo VS universal movie and television
Game: donkey kong.
Judgment: Nintendo won and Universal Pictures paid $58 million.
At that time, not to mention Nintendo's "strongest" name had not yet been born. Nintendo, which has just entered the American market by selling 60,000 sets of donkey kong, is a pure novice in both the game industry and the legal field. Their opponents in the first world war were already film and television giants with comprehensive influence in the world at that time.
Universal Pictures, which is not satisfied with the pure film industry for a long time, but wants a share in the video game industry, saw Nintendo donkey kong's ability to attract gold and wanted to take it for himself greedily. In court, Universal threatened Nintendo with offensive power, and presented various evidences to prove that Nintendo's game character "donkey kong" was too similar to the movie "King Kong" shot by Universal, which would make players mistakenly think it was their own game and play it. Even the protagonist in the game jumped to save his girlfriend (there was no such thing as Mario at that time), and the plot was similar to the movie King Kong.
In the face of the fierce global offensive, Nintendo's lawyer John Kabi argued and fundamentally defeated the global conspiracy of "touching porcelain". Universal Picture, who claims the copyright of King Kong, actually only has the right to remake it. What really defeated the world was Universal itself: A few years ago, in order to obtain the right to remake the classic IP movie King Kong, which had been published for more than 40 years, Universal applied through the court and turned King Kong into a "public resource" available to everyone. Since they don't have the right to edit the game, and even anyone can use the image of King Kong, the intention of this lawsuit is extremely sinister now: it is purely for extortion.
However, the most exciting story is yet to come. Nintendo, which has won the case, pursued the victory, and Nintendo backhand sued the worldwide authorized handheld game for infringement of its copyright. In the end, he not only didn't lose a penny, but also cost the world $58 million.
Nintendo became famous from the First World War. In order to commemorate Kabi, a lawyer who performed outstanding in this lawsuit, Nintendo later launched Kabi of the Stars, which was named after him.
Nintendo VS sega
Game: Tetris
Judgment: Nintendo obtained the copyright of Tetris.
Nintendo and Sega, who can launch cooperative games such as Mario and Sonik to welcome the Olympic Games together, look like good brothers today. In fact, their relationship was not harmonious in the early years, and they even fought for copyright, which caused controversy. Everyone played Tetris in those years.
In fact, the ownership of Tetris's copyright itself is very complicated. As the developer of this game, Alexei PaKinov does not actually own the copyright of Tetris. According to the laws of the former Soviet Union, the copyright of Tetris developed by the computer research center of the former Soviet Union does not belong to him personally, and it has already landed as the state-owned "intellectual property" of the former Soviet Union. The copyright of Tetris is actually managed by the Foreign Trade Association of the former Soviet Union (hereinafter referred to as ELORG).
Because of various loopholes in the early management of this organization, the copyright of Tetris is actually divided into different categories such as IBM transplant version, arcade version and original version, which are controlled by different companies. In order to find out the ownership of copyright, Nintendo's legal department personally sent people to Moscow, and finally found out that the copyright held by Sega was the so-called IBM mainframe version-it turned out that they had no right to develop the mainframe version at all!
Nintendo VS COLOPL
Game: White Cat Project
If Nintendo and Sega compete for Tetris copyright, it is an equal confrontation between the two established companies. Then Nintendo's strongest legal department "went out to attack" COLOPL, a Japanese novice travel company, which would make people feel that Nintendo is a bit bullying. But few people know that Nintendo's appearance this time is not only for the economic interests of its own company, but also for the heroic behavior of all Japanese game producers.
The game that went wrong this time is a mobile game "White Cat Project" released by COLOPL on 20 14. As an action role-playing game, the best thing about "White Cat Project" compared with similar games lies in its "virtual joystick technology":
In the white cat project, there are no fixed virtual buttons on the screen. Players only need to move, attack, dodge, skills and other operations through touch gestures at any position on the screen, so that players can get a smooth one-handed game experience.
This technology was first adopted by Nintendo in the transplanted version of the NDS game Super Mario 64, which also has a touch screen. In fact, this technology has long been used in all kinds of mobile games. Although Nintendo registered the patent long ago, it was more a protective registration than a profit from it. For a long time, Nintendo has acquiesced in other mobile game manufacturers to follow suit.
However, learning from Nintendo COLOPL is not worthy of gratitude. Instead, in order to save his declining performance, he applied for this "plagiarism patent" to be owned by his company on 20 17, so as to collect patent royalties from other mobile game companies. This means of "death" undoubtedly angered Nintendo. So on 20 17, 12, Nintendo's strongest legal department attacked again and formally filed a lawsuit with the court, demanding that COLOPL compensate 4.4 billion yen to stop the operation of the White Cat project.
COLOPL failed to reach the "strongest legal department" in the end, and had to change the bureau after repeated battles and defeats in the lawsuit. The way of reconciliation is also quite humiliating: in exchange for not stopping the game. COLOPL promised to develop a new work "White Cat Project" on Nintendo's platform.
Nintendo VS haunters
Game: Bao Mengke
Nintendo's strongest legal department defeated many big companies today, even haunters, who is powerful enough to surpass human beings, was defeated by it. Uri geller is an Israeli magician. Unlike many big companies with strong backgrounds, he dared to challenge Nintendo alone, claiming to have super powers. Uri geller's unique skill is to use "super power" to bend a spoon.
Perhaps because the artist is bold, even though he knows Nintendo's strongest name, uri geller still doesn't flinch. In 2000, he sued Nintendo in the Los Angeles court, and the "suspect involved" turned out to be "Yong Jila" in the game Poké mon.
Uri geller claimed that Nintendo used its own image and name to design the Dream of Yongjila without its own consent, which infringed on its own rights and interests and demanded compensation of 65,438+0,065,438+0 billion yen. Yongjila's Japanese writing ユンゲラー is very similar to Yuri Geller's Japanese pronunciation. Coupled with Yongji's image of being classified as a super power attribute in the game with a spoon, it seems that Nintendo will lose the lawsuit.
Compared with Universal Pictures' "malicious touching porcelain" more than ten years ago, uri geller's lawsuit is well-founded, and even Nintendo knows it is wrong. After all, the design may indeed refer to his image. But even under such unfavorable circumstances, Nintendo's name as the strongest legal department has not been disappointed. Faced with the claim of 10 1 100 million yen, Nintendo miraculously didn't have to pay a penny!
In the face of the original lawsuit, Nintendo just dragged into "overtime". Until 2008, the case was still unresolved. Nintendo said that Yongjila's character name was only used in Japan, and questioned that overseas courts in the United States had no right to try cases in Japan. Of course, they have already lost half a step, and this precious dream has never appeared in comics since then.
This is the whole content of this article, but even though Nintendo has launched so many brilliant achievements, the case accepted by the strongest legal department is still only the tip of the iceberg. Today, Nintendo is still creating the strongest myth in the eastern hemisphere, from large and small enterprises to pirated manufacturers, in order to ensure their legitimate rights and interests.
How do readers feel after reading this article? You are also welcome to exchange and discuss in the comment area, but in the end, I can't help asking a question: If Nintendo, the strongest in the eastern hemisphere, goes to court with Disney, the strongest in the western hemisphere, who will win?