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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 ...
The Journal of Intellectual Property Law compared both the Sega and Galoob cases to the earlier fair use case in Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios (1984), concluding that a new technology shouldn't trigger copyright liability as long as it doesn't undermine a copyright owner's ability to earn a fair return for their works. [11]
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.
Pages in category "Video game copyright case law" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. ... Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Universal Interactive (formerly Universal Interactive Studios until 2001) was an American video game publisher.The company was established on January 4, 1994, and led by Skip Paul and Robert Biniaz of MCA.
On November 13, 2001, both parts were streamlined under the name Vivendi Universal Games. [ 15 ] When Vivendi Universal sold all of its media operations to General Electric in October 2003, Vivendi Universal held on to Vivendi Universal Games, which was re-organized as a direct division of the conglomerate. [ 16 ]