Closed BcRikko closed 5 years ago
If I can say something about this, I would be against it. I may be biased, because I create a lot of them 😄, but I have a few things to say about this. Note that this is my personal opinion and I don't know much about copyright infringements.
I could talk a lot more about this, but I think you can get the general idea here. Then again, this is just my personal thoughts about this situation.
I understand how you feel. 👍 I know, many sites use pixel arts, and these arts are very attractive.
I read "Nintendo Game Content Guidelines for Online Video & Image Sharing Platforms" https://www.nintendo.co.jp/networkservice_guideline/en/index.html
Q6:Can I create, upload, and livestream content that is based on other Nintendo intellectual property, outside of gameplay footage and screenshots (such as, fan art)?
A6:The Guidelines only cover the sharing of Nintendo Game Content on appropriate video and image sharing sites. Any other use of Nintendo's intellectual property and creation of content outside of this scope is subject to the relevant laws of the applicable jurisdiction. Nintendo cannot provide legal advice to you, so we encourage you to seek your own legal counsel if you have any questions about whether your particular proposed use is permitted.
It's legal gray areas problem.
"appropriate video and image sharing sites" are YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, Instagram, Niconico Douga. GitHub is not included in these sharing sites.
So we need to comply with the laws of each country. 🤔 Since NES.css is a framework, it must be legal. It may be a critical problem if the number of users increases.
Even if it does not remove pixel arts, we need to call attention to NES.css users. 📣
Thank you for hearing me out. I've just read the "Nintendo Game Content Guidelines for Online Video & Image Sharing Platforms" and indeed there's some implications there like you've mentioned, but also there's this:
A3:We generally accept most commonly used video and image sharing platforms such as, but not limited to, YouTube, Twitch, and Instagram. However, we reserve the right to remove any content that we believe is unlawful, infringing, inappropriate, or not in line with the Guidelines.
Maybe something like Github was never brought to their attention :thinking: , and they may agree with our kind of "image sharing". But I understand a little more now, and I see that this can go bad in the future, so I agree with whatever you want to do with those icons, either removing them or just warning the users :+1:
they may agree with our kind of "image sharing".
I see. 👍
But it's difficult for me to completely understand the laws, especially the copyright. :sweat: Because there are different ways to interpret it.
So let's start with writing notes first. like this: https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css/pull/292#issuecomment-466722696
Nintendo owns the copyright of some pixel art. Therefore, we need to remove some style.
However, there are sites that use these. So it should be deprecated and should be deleted in the near future.