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I got a Cease and Desist Order from Nintendo!?

Posted by VicHD - April 1st, 2009


Wow, I can't believe this. I do not even know where to start. Well, I guess I could share this with the people here and show them what's going on:
I received this e-mail early in the morning:

"Dear Mr. Victor Fiori:
It has come to our attention that you have made an unauthorized use of our copyrighted work entitled The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords in the preparation of a work derived therefrom. We have reserved all rights in the work, first published in February 21st 1986 to present day. Your work entitled "Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Misadventures is essentially identical to the Work and clearly used the Work as its basis, for example: Copyrighted characters, backgrounds, artwork and music.
As you neither asked for nor received permission to use the Work as the basis for "Legend of Zelda: Four Swords" nor to make or distribute copies, including electronic copies, of same, I believe you have willfully infringed our rights under 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq. and could be liable for statutory damages as high as $150,000 as set forth in Section 504(c)(2) therein.

We demand that you immediately cease the use and distribution of all infringing works derived from the Work, and all copies, including electronic copies, of same, that you deliver to me, if applicable, all unused, undistributed copies of same, or destroy such copies immediately and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future. If I have not received an affirmative response from you by 04/15/2009, indicating that you have fully complied with these requirements, we shall take further actions against you.
Very truly yours,

Reginald Fils-Aimé, President of NOA
Satoru Iwata, President and CEO, Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Shigeru Miyamoto, Senior Managing Director of Nintendo Co., Ltd."

By the looks of it, Nintendo decided to put their foot down when it comes to authors making sprite related stuff or using copyrighted Nintendo characters in an author's story. I'm shocked, yet at the same time disappointed by this. Looks like Nintendo doesn't appreciate my interpretation of "The Legend of Zelda" and now I'm being forced to stop my Zelda series and work on more original content. What choice do I have? Four Swords Misadventures is now cancelled. I guess its back to the old drawing board. This is total Bull. I'm sorry guys... : (
Update: April Fools!


Comments

You should be happy. Shigeru Miyamoto e-mailed you!

Hm...well Nintendo has no real right to say you have to stop doing it because of your free time. Just because you are using it doesnt mean that your trying to bash zelda if you watch the episodes it clearly says quote by quote "I do this because im a fan of the series" I being you. What happened to all the other flashes that got to stay that also used zelda stuff. Its not just you who uses zelda stuff because they are a fan of the series. But im sorry Victor but I also want to take the time to say update your computer there is a worm thats supposedly going to comme today it could be an april fools joke but we are all trying to be safe. And just in case if its an april fools joke its good but i believe you. I am also sorry.

you makeh me sad

omg you little son of a bitch. YOU LITTLE SON OF A BITCH!

you actually got me going for a little while there til i realized it was april fools day.

har de har har

holy crap china is censoring me :O

On April Fools?

But even if this is true, using copyrighted material for things such as satire, rants, parodies, teachings and the likes is fairly legal.

this are very bad. i steer nintendo unfortunate terms hitler backwards of charm her childhood. most bicycle =(

If it is real: maybe you can take some action. It is not as if you earn any money from FSM.
If it's fake: well, it did scare me for a moment but seeing it is the first of april, and how coïncidental that letter came this morning to you, I strongly believe this is false.

Well, if you were selling crap based on the four swords misadventures, then thats a big no no.

fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff fffffffffffffffffffffffffuck. is this just an april fools joke? if it is you went to far man. lol jk. but if its serious. fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff fffffffffffffffffffuck

I agree, it's bullshit, but also an honeor to actually be recognized by Nintendo, seriously look at all the other sprite movies and they don't get any cease and desist letters from Nintendo. Still sucks that you can't do LOZ anymore, I love it, but I still like your earlier work.

I swear, this is just a sick april fool's joke. there is no way nintendo's just gonna wander around websites and act like a bitch to everyone useing their sprites. they should be enjoying it! simple math: people enjoy movie+game in exsistance=they go buy the game! seems pretty obvious to me.

also APRIL FOOLS!!!! we all know your joking but you got us on thr run

nice april fools man i know nintendo they dont do that

Happy april fools!

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wade54

As some already said.

April 1. is today. Kinda suspicious this happens today, no?

Lol, laughed at it tho^^

Dude this had better be an @pril Fools joke. I don't see any reason why they should have you cease the series when you are not slandering them or anything.

at first i believed it, but then i remembered the date... April Fools!

at first i believed it, but then i remembered the date... @pril Foools!

(i finally found a way to say @pril Foools without it being changed into China Rules)

They can not do this man i mean loz missadvetures is a funny ass show and nice joke lol

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