{"id":10507,"date":"2013-07-14T12:27:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T17:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10507"},"modified":"2013-07-14T12:27:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T17:27:25","slug":"why-nintendo-can-legally-shut-down-any-smash-bros-tournament-it-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10507","title":{"rendered":"Why Nintendo can legally shut down any Smash Bros. tournament it wants"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Video games are treated differently, though, primarily because they exist on a screen rather than a board. &#8220;A video game under copyright law is an audiovisual work, which gives a public performance right to the copyright holder,&#8221; Dallas attorney and <a href=\"http:\/\/lawofthegame.blogspot.com\/\">Law of the Game blog author<\/a> Mark Methenitis explained in an interview with Ars. &#8220;Under the public performance right, the copyright holder is allowed to say when, where, or whether something is publicly performed, meaning displayed in front of a group of people larger than, say, at your house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if you want to put on a <i>Street Fighter<\/i> tournament and charge people to watch, Capcom can make you get a license for the &#8220;public performance&#8221; of the game. In fact, that is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capcom-unity.com\/ask_capcom\/go\/thread\/view\/7371\/27258561\/tournament-game-copyright-law\">exactly what Capcom does<\/a> with for-profit tournaments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2013\/07\/why-nintendo-can-legally-shut-down-any-smash-bros-tournament-it-wants\/\">Why Nintendo can legally shut down any Smash Bros. tournament it wants | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video games are treated differently, though, primarily because they exist on a screen rather than a board. &#8220;A video game under copyright law is an audiovisual work, which gives a public performance right to the copyright holder,&#8221; Dallas attorney and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10507\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[439,661,727],"class_list":["post-10507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-copyright","tag-gaming","tag-rent-seeking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}