{"id":119272,"date":"2020-10-13T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/10\/nintendo_lawyers_hit_fan-made_zelda_game_with_fatal_copyright_claim"},"modified":"2020-10-13T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T12:30:00","slug":"nintendo-lawyers-hit-fan-made-zelda-game-with-%ef%bb%bffatal-copyright-%ef%bb%bfclaim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/13\/nintendo-lawyers-hit-fan-made-zelda-game-with-%ef%bb%bffatal-copyright-%ef%bb%bfclaim\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Lawyers Hit Fan-Made Zelda Game With \ufeffFatal Copyright \ufeffClaim"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nintendo’s legal team has swooped in once again, filing a copyright claim on a fan-made Legend of Zelda<\/strong> game which has forced the project to be entirely delisted.<\/p>\n

Well-known modder Kaze Emanuar, who has been releasing a number of unofficial Nintendo-based projects over the last few years, launched a title called ‘The Missing Link’ earlier this year. The game made use of the very same engine from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time<\/strong><\/a>, and aimed to bridge the gap between Ocarina, and later N64 title, Zelda: Majora’s Mask<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The game was available from GitHub, but following the copyright claim, has since been removed. Spotted by Torrentfreak<\/a>, the complaint<\/a> reads as follows:<\/p>\n

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“The copyrighted works are the video games in Nintendo\u2019s The Legend of Zelda video game franchise, including without limitation the audio-visual works, story lines, characters, and imagery in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (U.S. Copyright Reg. No. PA0000901848), The Legend of Zelda: Majora\u2019s Mask (U.S. Copyright Reg. No. PA0001940271), and others.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Nintendo has reviewed the reported material and does not believe it qualifies as a fair use of Nintendo\u2019s copyright-protected work.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It goes on to ask GitHub’s page to be removed, saying that it “provides access to a software file that contains an unauthorized derivative work of Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda video game franchise in violation of Nintendo’s exclusive rights.”<\/p>\n

It’s worth noting that the complaint only asked for the project’s removal, and didn’t spark a lawsuit or further trouble for the parties involved.<\/p>\n

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