Nintendo says this amazing Super Mario site is illegal

Re:Nintendo says this amazing Super Mario site is illegal by stonemetal on Thursday October 24, 2013 @08:04AM (#6604702)

Art yes, name probably not. I believe the name would be covered by trademark. Trademark allows for indefinite ownership.

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Re:Nintendo says this amazing Super Mario site is illegal by rejoinder on Thursday October 24, 2013 @09:02AM (#6604979)

Can you really trademark a name such as Mario?

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Re:Nintendo says this amazing Super Mario site is illegal by stonemetal on Thursday October 24, 2013 @09:26AM (#6605100)

Sure, Apple has trademarked Apple. MS has trademarked Windows. Why not Mario? It would have to be limited in use to video games, electronic entertainment, or whatever the narrowest category for such things there is.

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Re:Nintendo says this amazing Super Mario site is illegal by arbitrage on Thursday October 24, 2013 @09:17AM (#6605051)

In the context of a video game character who happens to be a plumber from Brooklyn, yes.

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Re:Nintendo says this amazing Super Mario site is illegal by chinpokomon on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:44PM (#6608212)

And movie... or are we trying to forget that that was ever made?

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Re:Nintendo says this amazing Super Mario site is illegal by rejoinder on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @06:33PM (#6643945)

Hoskins must have some plumbing fetish.

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