Nintendo is well-known for protecting its products and trademarks logically, so it comes as little surprise that the gaming giant has taken legal action over a Kickstarter campaign found guilty of infringing.
The new & # 39; Adventures Passport Travel Holder & # 39; launched with a $ 1,000 cash offer, giving sponsors a passport, luggage tags and a small lane for their money. That may sound innocent in itself, but advertising promoted the product as "good." an animal cover of your passport new arrivals to cross and pits! "(Featured words are underlined).
Oh, and it looks like this.
Yes.
The Kickstarter Page it now reads, "The New Adventures Passport Travel Holder is a matter of intellectual property dispute and is currently unavailable". It cooked managed to get $ 34,000 in backer support before closing.
A DMCA claim (the Digital Millenium Copyright Act) may also be available online.
Nintendo has the rights to publish all aspects of the Animal Crossing video program, including but not limited to visual work, photographs, and graphic characters covered by the U.S. Copyright …
This reported campaign featured photos of Animal Nicendo's copyrighted animal rights claimants about the making of products that make unauthorized use of Nintendo & # 39; s Animal Crossing characters and images
In other recent legal news, Nintendo pointed to several Super Mario projects on the PS4 title Dreams, and had its application to dismiss the Joy-Con ban case denied.
When will people learn not to integrate with Nintendo, huh?
