Nintendo is trying to trademark the Super Mario "coin" sound.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20160323-00000091-it_nlab-sci.view-000
Cool, thanks for letting me know.
JOJ
>>331787263
JEJ
>>331787263
fuck i lol'd
>>331787102
Do you want to play a game?
>>331787263
i dont get it
will it retroactively take effect ?
>>331788490
KEK
wew
>>331788490
Only weebs get this shit
>>331787102
OK?
Lots of companies have copyrighted sound effects.
Some even copyright fucking COLORS.
Why is nintendo doing what any other big company would do somehow newsworthy?
>>331787102
Fuck Nintendo that shit should be public domain. Don't they know it's a part of our culture? You would never see any other video game company try to do something as scummy and backhanded as this.
>>331788960
>Why is nintendo doing what any other big company would do somehow newsworthy?
Other companies don't stay rent-free in autists' heads like Nintendo. Everytime someone at Nintendo sneezes, the spergs come out in full force and spam the boards with multiple redundant threads. It gets kind of overwhelming at times.
>>331788960
>Why is nintendo doing what any other big company would do somehow newsworthy?
Because it's Nintendo
>>331787102
if you think thats bad.
parts of the human DNA are patented and trademarked.
I'm surprised they hadn't already.
test
>>331788960
But they said "trademark", not copyright.
Also, you don't copyright colors.
Who taught you law? McDonalds?
>>331792259
You can't patent naturally occurring things. Courts have rejected it.
https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/testing/genepatents
Perhaps you're referring to scientifically-manipulated ones.
>>331792498
Me too. I would have assumed they would have already done this with all of the iconic sound effects from the Mario and Zelda games.
>>331787102
kek
so what?
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>>331788960
because they probably just stole the noise from some public domain sound archive. altough i guess they made that sound what it is today. I know many peeps with that as their txt notification
>>331792498
Yeah, that's the most shocking thing about this announcement.
Although, on a related note, I don't think SEGA trademarked the ring collection noise, since I hear the registers making the sound every time I get gas at an ARCO.
>>331788112
only if I can give you 60 buckaroos for a complete package game that will enthrall me with its captivating storty characters and gameplay
>>331793650
Yeah, that makes complete sense during the early 1980s, a fucking public sound archive.
>>331793758
yes it does. do you even into broadcasting or any kind of media that doesnt involve twiddling ur winkie to naked ladies? I worked in radio for 10+ years so go a fuck urself
>ITT: People eho don't know the difference between copyright and trademark
>>331794056
Woooo, 10+ years, that obviously includes the 80s there, gramps.
>>331787263
can sombody explain this joke?
>>331789260
>at times
You mean almost all the time.
>>331794056
All the sound effects were made by Koji Kondo, you expect to find the pipe sound in a sound archive?
>>331787102
You don't trademark a sound you copyright it
>>331794869
not the guy you replied to, but you're actually retarded. he didn't say 10 years ago, he said for 10 years, obviously meaning at any point in time.
>>331795776
Woo, so he's no longer employed and he's old and possibly senile.
>>331794056
As what, a fucking Board Op?
SFX libraries weren't even widely used until CD's came about, and even then, the sound effects were usually live recordings of different things or the occasional shitty synth/flange waves of random inputs. Not NES waves.
