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* ''[[Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman]]'' was forcibly renamed to ''[[What Did I Do to Deserve This My Lord]]?'' after an angry letter from [[Batman|Warner Bros.]] |
* ''[[Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman]]'' was forcibly renamed to ''[[What Did I Do to Deserve This My Lord]]?'' after an angry letter from [[Batman|Warner Bros.]] |
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* The [[Tetris]] Company absolutely ''adores'' this trope. They claim to have [[Disney Owns This Trope|copyrights on basically every aspect of the game]], even those which the US Supreme Court has ruled ''cannot be copyrighted'' ([[wikipedia:Lotus v. Borland|Lotus v. Borland]]), and they'll send C&D letters to anyone who so much as dares make a game with falling tetrominoes, or even just the song "Korobeiniki" (which is actually a Russian folk song, but often remembered as "the Tetris theme"). |
* The [[Tetris]] Company absolutely ''adores'' this trope. They claim to have [[Disney Owns This Trope|copyrights on basically every aspect of the game]], even those which the US Supreme Court has ruled ''cannot be copyrighted'' ([[wikipedia:Lotus v. Borland|Lotus v. Borland]]), and they'll send C&D letters to anyone who so much as dares make a game with falling tetrominoes, or even just the song "Korobeiniki" (which is actually a Russian folk song, but often remembered as "the Tetris theme"). |
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** ''Blockles'' was pulled after a lawsuit from The |
** ''Blockles'' was pulled after a lawsuit from The Tetris Company was settled out of court and replaced with a ''[[Puyo Puyo]]'' clone. |
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** ''Mino'' was pulled in mid-2012 after The Tetris Company ''won'' in court. Turns out the "original" parts are the field dimensions and the seven tetrominoes. |
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** ''Lockjaw'' and ''LJ65'' were pulled after the news of what happened to ''Mino'' hit [[Slashdot]]. |
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* This trope is commonly theorised to be the reason that [[MOTHER 1|the]] ''[[Earthbound|MOTHER]]'' [[Mother 3|trilogy]] has remained a case of [[No Export for You]] ever since the series' [[Earthbound|sole American release]] in 1995. Japan has looser copyright laws than America, and it's believed that Shigesato Itoi refuses to allow the myriad cultural [[Shout-Out|ShoutOuts]], [[The Jimmy Hart Version|Jimmy Hart versions]] and a certain [[Salvador Dali]] themed enemy to be changed for another international release, and Nintendo is unwilling to override his decisions. The rest of the world may not be the only ones affected by this - notably, it's still absent from the Japanese [[Wii|Virtual Console]] even though it was included as a Masterpiece in the Japanese version of ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'' and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3UWSm5dKIw explicitly named by Satoru Iwata] when introducing the Virtual Console in 2005... |
* This trope is commonly theorised to be the reason that [[MOTHER 1|the]] ''[[Earthbound|MOTHER]]'' [[Mother 3|trilogy]] has remained a case of [[No Export for You]] ever since the series' [[Earthbound|sole American release]] in 1995. Japan has looser copyright laws than America, and it's believed that Shigesato Itoi refuses to allow the myriad cultural [[Shout-Out|ShoutOuts]], [[The Jimmy Hart Version|Jimmy Hart versions]] and a certain [[Salvador Dali]] themed enemy to be changed for another international release, and Nintendo is unwilling to override his decisions. The rest of the world may not be the only ones affected by this - notably, it's still absent from the Japanese [[Wii|Virtual Console]] even though it was included as a Masterpiece in the Japanese version of ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'' and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3UWSm5dKIw explicitly named by Satoru Iwata] when introducing the Virtual Console in 2005... |
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* The fangame ''[[Streets of Rage]] Remake'' was yanked off of its' website days after completion due to Sega wanting to protect their IP, despite the fact that Sega themselves haven't made any more games in the series for over 10 years. Some theorized that it was because of the recent mobile phone port of Streets of Rage 2. |
* The fangame ''[[Streets of Rage]] Remake'' was yanked off of its' website days after completion due to Sega wanting to protect their IP, despite the fact that Sega themselves haven't made any more games in the series for over 10 years. Some theorized that it was because of the recent mobile phone port of Streets of Rage 2. |
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