Submitted 16 hours ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to games@lemmy.world
According to videogame patent lawyer Kirk Sigmon, the USPTO granting Nintendo these latest patents isn’t just a moment of questionable legal theory. It’s an indictment of American patent law.
“Broadly, I don’t disagree with the many online complaints about these Nintendo patents,” said Sigmon, whose opinions do not represent those of his firm and clients. “They have been an embarrassing failure of the US patent system.”
An embarrassing failure describes the US quite well actually.
I can’t wait to play Elden Ring 2 when it’s made by Nintendo because Elden Ring used summoning and only runs at 12 fps.
If it was made by Nintendo (not Gamefreak) it would actually be optimized
Nintendo also owns the rights to platformers, racing games, and rpgs. Tough luck, that's just how it is.
Don’t forget alarm clocks
This is why I can't support Nintendo.
The USPTO is notorious for granting insane patents knowing they are invalid or too vague and expect the court system to be the final arbiter. It’s almost as if they like stirring shit up for there own amusement.
I’d wager these video game illiterates look at 1 thing:
Do they recognize the name of the company?
If the answer to that is ‘yes,’ then they will give that company whatever they want. If the answer is ‘no,’ then you’re fucked.
death to intellectual property
I’m fully stopped. Now what?
Hammer time
The time for “collaborate and listen” has passed. Now, the time for Nintendo to bring down hammer go hammer mc hammer yo hammer and the rest can go and play has arrived.
zrst@lemmy.cif.su 5 hours ago
Copyright and patent laws need to die.
Anyone who doesn’t understand this is a useful idiot.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Current system is obviously broken, but you don’t believe that artists and creators should have a right to control their intellectual property at all?
Doomsider@lemmy.world 15 seconds ago
To answer your first question no.
Intellectual property is a societal construct and it is as real as racism is. Which isn’t saying much.
If an artist doesn’t want their music to be heard and possibly replicated, altered, or used in a way they don’t like then it is their responsibility to never release it. Only by hiding it can they keep the world from misusing it.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
I do believe that.
Intellectual property leads to all kind of unfairness. It should be normalized that artist would be paid for the work done, nor for property ownership.
This adds to some other believes about people shouldn’t be paid just for “property ownership”.
And once the art is done and released is part of human race, that does include terrible human beings, but it also includes absolutely everyone else.
Some other argument for this… For instance, being an artist is one of the jobs with biggest pay disparity, from the poorest of them all to some of the richest. That’s a normal output of basing income on property ownership, things snowball once you have enough property.
I don’t think there’s a way to make private property (physical or intelectual) work in a fair economy. And remember, private property is not the same as personal property, just in case.
SlothMama@lemmy.world 59 minutes ago
I also believe all intellectual property laws shouldn’t exist, so patent, copyright, and trademark.
zrst@lemmy.cif.su 4 hours ago
It’s imaginary property. It’s not real and only exists in our heads. Saying someone stole your “intellectual property” is akin to saying they “stole your idea.”
It is about the money, as well.
If you want to prioritize controlling what others can do with an idea, then nobody should be able to restrict someone else from doing what they want with an idea.
Bruce Springsteen will just have to grow up and get over it.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
They don’t seem to be protecting creators from getting their work subsumed by AI, so they’re clearly not fit for purpose. But I do think there needs to be some protection for artists and creators, it’s just that either the present laws are shit or the courts can be bought.