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Nintendo investigating possible copyright infringement in new Nokia smartphone

November 30th, 2009 at 12:30am Under Wii / Nintendo

Nintendo’s says it will investigate possible copyright infringement in Nokia’s N900 smartphone after a Nokia blog post showcased the device playing retro games through the use of an emulator application. According to Edge, the video (which is no longer available) featured someone playing Super Mario World and Super Mario Bros. 3, and also showed off buttons that supposedly opened emulators for Nintendo’s Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, NES and SNES.

Nintendo UK PR manager Robert Saunders told Edge the company was unaware of the smartphone’s emulation feature and stated that Nintendo would take “rigorous steps” to protect its intellectual property. “Our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place,” Saunders added. Even if the feature ends up on the cutting room floor, we imagine some crafty hackers are already taking steps to get emulation software working on the Nokia device. Just like they do with everything else.

Nintendo investigating possible copyright infringement in new Nokia smartphone originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Revenge of Shinobi’s Spider-Man cleverly disguised

August 10th, 2009 at 05:25pm Under Wii / Nintendo

We were delighted to hear that The Revenge of Shinobi would be coming out on the Virtual Console in Europe, though we were very curious about how Sega would get around the inclusion of Spider-Man, for whom the company once had Marvel’s permission.

As Nintendo Life reveals, Sega solved the copyright issue the way many of us solve chili issues: with a thick coat of Pepto-Bismol. The Spider-Man boss is now solid pink! Other pop-culture-based bosses had already been altered in previous cartridge releases to be a bit more legally distinct — for example, Batman became more of a bat monster.

Revenge of Shinobi’s Spider-Man cleverly disguised originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.