Mr eel
Check your facts!
Some folk learn the hard way and some don’t seem to learn much at all. While reading an article on 1UP about the history of lawsuits in the game industry, I game across an interesting bit of information. Sometime after Nintendo released Donkey Kong, Universal Pictures attempted to sue them for copyright infringement. This is a little snippet from the article.
“Howard Lincoln (now well-recognized as the Senior Vice President of the company) discovered that not only did Universal not own the rights to King Kong, they’d won a lawsuit years prior declaring that King Kong was actually public domain. It wasn’t Universal’s finest moment…”
Oops.
That’s actually quite interesting to consider, since someone could now legitimately create a King Kong game in order to cash in on the hype surrounding the remake. I wonder if anyone is feeling up to it?
Comments
barry handler on December 21, 2005
I am puzzled as to why there has been no donkey kong movie made yet .. or has there ?
Mr eel on December 22, 2005
I read some rumours a little while ago.
Apparently Nintendo are more keen to see Zelda get made into a movie. Personally I think it should be an anime.
Ossi on January 12, 2006
“I game across an…”
You gamed across an…? I´m stealing that one.
Mr eel on January 12, 2006
I are dyslexia.