Comment on Garry Newman of Facepunch comments on the Nintendo takedown of Garry's Mod content

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gerbler@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

This is oft repeated but it’s not true. Copyrights do not get revoked if you don’t enforce your exclusivity. Trademarks can be genericised but only in extreme cases (band-aid is NOT genericised for example).

Nintendo is hyper litigious but not for any legal requirement to defend their copyrights.

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