Nintendo Threatens Suicidegirls Over IP Use

An anonymous reader writes "Suicidegirls (a not safe for work adult community) posted a nasty letter they received from Nintendo demanding they remove a member's page on their site because the member listed Metroid and Zelda as their favorite video games." Update: 10/28 02:49 GMT by Z : BoingBoing has an update to the story (probably where the reader saw it in the first place), saying the law firm that represents Nintendo Seattle is looking into it.

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Re:WTF?

[phasm42]

If you'd actually looked at the page, you'd see that it wasn't in the metatags, it was in the page:

FAVORITE BOOKS: Screw books! Video games: Ninja Gaiden, Halo, Zelda, Final Fantasy I-VI, Dead or Alive, Mortal Kombat, Castlevania, Silent Hill, Earthworm Jim, Mega Man, Unreal, Metroid, Doom, Soul Caliber, Guilty Gear, F-Zero GX, Eternal Darkness, KOTOR, WarCraft

Also, if you'd read Nintendo's letter carefully, you'd see that they said "Nintendo trademark(s)/works in the hidden text/visible text/meta tags and/or title and/or links", meaning it could have been any of the things they listed. It's obviously a standard letter, so rather than tailoring it to the particular case, they just listed everything to cover all their bases.

Yes,

[pavon]

Perkins Coie is one of Seattle's oldest firms, established in 1912. As I mentioned in an early post, they have been doing this sort of thing for Nintendo since at least 2001. Google searches show that several high level employees including a senior vice president, and Head Legal Counsel have had jobs at both companies. I doubt that Nintendo had direct knowledge of this suit, but Perkins Coie is definately working for them.