Nintendo Shuts Down Fan-Made Zelda Movie

[Signa]

Well I can't help but side with Nintendo on this one. While that trailer didn't look too bad, I've still been saying for some time now that there's nothing worse for a franchise then it's fans, specifically fan tributes. I think their biggest mistake was submitting it to actual film festivals and movie theatres, by doing that it could've looked, from Nintendo's stand point, that they were trying to profit from this film.
I know my biggest fear, if I were to create something that became a huge franchise, would be the fans fucking it up with their own twisted, misguided interpretations.

Good point, but how is it any different than what Uwe Boll does with any other video game franchise? I bet you it's that he merely paid for the rights to make the movie before slaughtering it instead of not. Money money money money.

I just love how 85% of the people here are angry at Nintendo. I mean, if someone took my characters without my permission and made a movie about it, I'd be pretty mad. After all, movies usually means profit and if Nintendo isn't getting anything from it and they are, That's just wrong. Even if it was a fan made, it's still a movie and that usually means profit.

Um, not for nothing, but if you really don't think a creator's work should be infringed by fans paying tribute, then you probably should change your avatar. Lucario is a Nintendo character, and you didn't pay for the rights to use it. Having him glow weird colors like that might be a misrepresentation of the character, and some could take it to mean that he is gay.

All I'm saying is that if you are going to condone copyright law in it's current form, you should practice what you preach. Copyrighted material is made for fans to love it, but yet no one is allowed to pay tribute, only money. 85% of the people here have a better understanding of that than Nintendo, because 85% of the people here appreciate Zelda as a work of art that Nintendo doesn't have the resources to display in new lights. The last Nintendo-made movie was about 20 years ago, so I think they are out of the business of making feature films. IF Nintendo makes a film in the future on Zelda, then they should either write their own with no regards to the fan film, or if the film is good enough, just remake it with higher production values. It's not like the fans have any right to the film's story or characters because they didn't pay for the right to use them. But to say that their work can't exist isn't fair to anyone at all. Not even Nintendo if they took a step back and looked at it logically and not legally.

 

[HentMas]

The thing is, even if it was non-profit, the creators where then making a name of themselves by a project that didn`t even belonged to them in the first place, one haves to remember that money is not always the most important thing, he was getting famous for ripping another man`s job

its as if someone makes a movie out of your life, he becomes famous and gets a better job, a paid project and starts making films, all his success is based on that one movie about you, and he did that movie without your permision, wouldn`t you get mad because someone got lucky because of you and he never had the right to do so in the first place?

 

[RYjet911]

Hang on though...

I thought that non-profit works were free from the confines of copyright laws? Since they were only using character identities and (I'm assuming at least) no actual Nintendo-made footage, they are technically able to distribute a free movie based on it without Nintendo being able to get legally involved?

Or was it just another case of 'cease and desist' orders from Nintendo that this group just caved in at? I've heard a lot of stories about 'fake' cease and desist orders, since many of them are just the company telling them to stop, not actual legal court orders.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Well I can't help but side with Nintendo on this one. While that trailer didn't look too bad, I've still been saying for some time now that there's nothing worse for a franchise then it's fans, specifically fan tributes. I think their biggest mistake was submitting it to actual film festivals and movie theatres, by doing that it could've looked, from Nintendo's stand point, that they were trying to profit from this film.
I know my biggest fear, if I were to create something that became a huge franchise, would be the fans fucking it up with their own twisted, misguided interpretations.

Good point, but how is it any different than what Uwe Boll does with any other video game franchise? I bet you it's that he merely paid for the rights to make the movie before slaughtering it instead of not. Money money money money.

Well I'm not about to dictate what Nintendo can and can't do with it's franchises. Legally though, if they licensed the rights to a company like say Fox (who would then hire someone like Uwe Bowl to direct it) to make a movie of the franchise and they butchered it, I don't think there's anything they can do about it unless there were specific arrangements made in the contract that weren't met. Thing is, in the case of movie makers like Bowl, Nintendo still has some control over it, but they have absolutely no control over the machinations of the fans.

 

[malkivar]

Really? no one saw this coming? Nintendo has been repeatedly screwing it's fans over for years and no one realised this was going to happen? All Nintendo does now is create lame games for lame consoles gear toward the mentally retarded, children under seven years of age and old people with pensions. They've completely ignored everything that made their company one of honor and awesome and instead have decided to line their own pockets. To be honest I'd rather shake George Bush's hand and say "Hey man, good job, you are a wonderful man" than buy ANYTHING which Nintendo releases...
Such a damned shame...

 

[Baldr]

If you use Copyright properties without permission it is infringement. Fair use is very often misunderstood. First off Fair Use is decided on a case by case basis, meaning it can be applied in one case, and absolutely non-applied in another case meaning it is copyright infringement. However there are 3 applications of Fair Use that most courts would uphold: In education to demonstrate a principle for learning. To be used to demonstrate a current news event. Lastly for a work to be parodied. Meaning making fun of the copyrighted work. However satire, using the copyrighted work to make fun of something else is not protected under fair use. Let this be a lesson to everyone, if your going to use someone else's intellectual property, GET PERMISSION.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Nintendo can go fuck itself, I really wanted to see that movie, fucking greedy selfish bastards

 

[SD-Fiend]

so they allow knock off's of super mario (super chick sisters) but they wont let us watch a movie?

 

[NoTroll]

What a bunch of tools.

 

[Willowleaf]

I have actually followed this movie since it was first announced on youtube in, oh, 2006? Maybe a little bit earlier? No, that was when it was due to come out, I'm sure of it. My older brother showed it to me, and I loyally followed their webpage around for years, read most of their updates, and was an all-around insanely loyal fan. I was still surprised when they actually finished it. Keep this in mind when I say screw logic and the law and all that stuff, how dare Nintendo?

 

[Inzi]

No. Nintendo and it's whole company. **** YOU!
(Opinion: If Nintendo wants to continue to grow fans around the world it better damn well let people share their "free will". I hate this copyright tightwad bs. People who make fan videos shouldn't be shut down. If Nintendo wants to shut them down, they might as well shut down the whole anime cosplay conventions, fanbase websites and art sites alike. Just because something isn't accurate doesn't mean it should be destroyed. In cosplay conventions I see plenty of fans dress up as their fav character and end up getting more then half of the costume wrong. So if you're going to repair the wall you've put up Nintendo then repair it all. And **** you and your post production interactive movies bs. A movie is a movie and a game is a game. If your going to make a movie then make it. don't turn it into a video game. Movies are meant to be enjoyed more so with eyes on a screen in a relaxed position not playing video games. So there's that. Here's my giant middle finger to Nintendo in general. And if I make a Zelda movie in the future and you come and try to shut my project down I don't give a flying fetus if you sue me, you're not going to step on me and take something I enjoyed growing up with away. You can pout, sue and whine all you want. But the fans deserve it and with you and your *itching you sure as hell don't.

I am tired of companies taking away the imagination and world they create for these fans and kids and expect them to follow like puppies for the rest of their lives. My opinion not only for Nintendo but square enix and sony stands too. So if you have a project that you want to make, then make it. Give the finger to the apposing audience and don't cowar in a corner. Instead fight for what you have a passion for. Don't let big bull shiste company names like this scare you into a hole. When this country starts being humane and starts acting civil, when the world stops acting like its from the prehistoric era filled with ***holes then I'll change my thoughts and opinions. But until then Nintendo suck it.

And I from now on don't wear my Zelda hoodie to represent Nintendo. I wear it to represent Zelda as a sole project, as a dream, as inspiration. There's a reason there's a shield on the front and that's for the day you try to grow some ***s to kick me in the *** only to find out that my bite is much worse then my bark. Now go ahead throw me in jail. It only proves my point. You'll only be taking my "free will" away.)

Mood: Agitated and seriously *issed

 

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