Nintendo clamps down on Pokémon fansites - Nintendo DS, DSi & DSiWare Forum

Raylax · 2010-09-19T15:16:01+00:00

A couple of Pokémon fansites have today received warning from Nintendo to remove all screenshots of the upcoming Pokémon Black and White versions, or face immediate legal action. Other fansites are apparantly due to receive notices shortly. The following is the letter received by Pokébeach: PokéBeach Copyright Infringement Notice: URGENT & TIME SENSITIVE: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED September 18, 2010 Registrant PokeBeach.com RE: Infringement of Nintendo of America Inc.’s Intellectual Property Rights Dear Sir or Madam: We are legal counsel to Nintendo of America Inc. (referred to here, with its parent and affiliated companies, as “Nintendo”). As you are no doubt well aware, Nintendo is one of the world’s leading developers and distributors of video game products. The Pokémon franchise is one of Nintendo’s most popular game series, and the upcoming release of the Pokémon Black and Pokémon White video games has garnered significant media attention. The intellectual property associated with the games, including the copyright in the underlying software code, visual depictions of the games, and characters found within the games, is the subject of copyright protection in the United States and abroad. We recently learned that you have posted screenshots and other protected content from the Pokémon Black and Pokémon White games to your website at http://pokebeach.com. While Nintendo appreciates your interest in and support of the Pokémon game series, your publication of this content infringes Nintendo’s copyrights in violation of federal law. Your activity also and has the potential to cause substantial damage to Nintendo, and leaves Nintendo with no choice but to take steps to protect its intellectual property rights. We have accordingly submitted a copyright infringement notice to your domain registrar under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and anticipate that your website will be taken down shortly. We encourage you to immediately remove from your website all graphics, screenshots, and other protected content taken from the Pokémon Black and Pokémon White games. Going forward, you must also refrain from posting any screenshots, videos, or other content that infringes Nintendo’s rights in the Pokémon series or any other game. Your full and immediate compliance with the foregoing should render further action on Nintendo’s part unnecessary. It is essential that we receive your written response confirming that you have taken these necessary actions by Sunday, September 19, 12:00 p.m. PDT, however, or Nintendo will have no choice but to consider its alternative legal remedies. Please contact me if you would like to discuss this matter in further detail. Nothing stated herein shall constitute a waiver of any rights or remedies of Nintendo of America Inc., its parent or affiliated companies, all of which are expressly reserved. It's not yet clear whether the letters are real, or an elaborate hoax (given that Pokébeach's admin has had actual contact with the lawyer, it seems real), but if it is real then personally I think Nintendo is being incredibly stupid on this one. http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Fansites_served_with_co...

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Raylax
Sun 19th Sep 2010

Whether or not it is real (and the whole day of the folks at Serebii/Bulbapedia/Pokébeach digging into this, contacting lawyers, etc, has yet to bring conclusive proof that it isn't), and whether or not Nintendo's wrong for doing it, I do wish Pokébeach hadn't done this. Taking a "they're treating us like animals, so let's crap on the floor!" stance is only going to make things worse. Thankfully Bulba and Serebii are being more mature, so hopefully the whole affair will dissipate after some talks.

Raylax

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LordJumpMad
Sun 19th Sep 2010

Nintendo is just trying to stop Leaks....Like this
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LzWinky
Sun 19th Sep 2010

Raylax wrote:

Whether or not it is real (and the whole day of the folks at Serebii/Bulbapedia/Pokébeach digging into this, contacting lawyers, etc, has yet to bring conclusive proof that it isn't), and whether or not Nintendo's wrong for doing it, I do wish Pokébeach hadn't done this. Taking a "they're treating us like animals, so let's crap on the floor!" stance is only going to make things worse. Thankfully Bulba and Serebii are being more mature, so hopefully the whole affair will dissipate after some talks.

Ah, immaturity at its finest!

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kkslider5552000
Mon 20th Sep 2010

I dunno, I personally would have taken it a step further and try to find NOA's lawyers and give them Ditto cards with genetalia drawn on them. And maybe make them eat the cards.

cmon NOA! You aren't Square Enix and this isn't a Chrono Trigger fangame!

[Edited Mon 20th Sep 2010 by kkslider5552000]

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Pogocoop
Mon 20th Sep 2010

I have a saved image of all of the pokemon allready

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