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How did I miss this? I mean, yeah, it’s not the exact same shape, but still…
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“Game clones”, “spiritual successors”, etc is a thing, y’know? Concrete assets, sounds, etc is protected by copyright, but it’s not ‘ideas’. “Metroid” name itself is protected by trademark, but it’s not copyright.
Ideas can only be patented, but it’s not copyright, and it’s severely limited by laws.
whoops i mean that IS Metroid.
Obviously you didn’t read his post. Ideas can be Copyrighted, That’s what IPs are. Metroid is an Idea and a game. no one, other then Nintendo, Can put Metroid on another console. They can make a game LIKE metroid but they can’t actually MAKE a game like Metriod.
Actually, he said you can’t copyright ideas, and that’s true. (And thankfully, you can’t patent fanfics and headcanons.)
actually, you can, that’s what a patent is for.
You can’t copyright inspiration, ideas and facts (not yet, and hopefully never).
So if they draw their own style of it, they should be free to use almost whatever they want.
_-@TexasUberAlles
Well, I had headcanon that’s almost exactly like this episode too (shield mark, simultaneousness, helping filly get her CM, etc).
mane*
they had to go with a safer choice
That’s probably not far off the mark, actually; if they had used a more obvious design, there’s a roughly 8000% chance that dozens of fan artists would have already gotten there before them, and that would give Hasbro’s Legal Dept. hives. Something completely new– yet still appropriate for the characters like this– was the almost inevitable outcome.
…but the heart in the apple? Wasn’t Apple Bloom a bit of a building specialist?
I like to think that these are their cutie marks because the fandom took all the good choices and they had to go with a safer choice. The shields.
@Beau Skunky
I’ve seen more than one fan artist use the CMC patch as a shared cutie mark for them, so it’s not completely unheard of.
Did mean the shield, yes.
If you mean the individual symbols, though, you’re gonna have to explain further, OP