RE: [BULK] {LibGaming} Legalities of using Nintendo images for library gaming poster?

[Eli Neiburger]

You are in the clear. I was told by GolinHarris, Nintendo's Marketing Firm, that using their Intellectual Property in promotional materials for a free library event is allowed and legal. You are promoting their products. They love that. =)

There is no legal issue here. This is allowed, and even encouraged, by the rightsholders. Let me know if you have any other questions about this!

-eli

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Hello All,

I have been reading through the many wonderful posts and resources
listed throughout this group for quite a while. It is wonderful to see
such dedicated group of individuals interesting in encouraging young
people into their libraries.

I do have the question of whether there are legalities of using
Nintendo images/wallpaper images (located throughout their website)
for our first upcoming gaming event? I have read through Nintendo's
copyright policy on their website and judging by that our library will
be unable to go ahead with the posters that we has intended to use to
promote the event. A fellow librarian in a different library system
was the inspiration for our library to go ahead with our own gaming
event and similarly we took our scheme of the type of poster by that
library. We used a Nintendo wallpaper from their website and over laid
in Adobe Photoshop the important text (such as name of the event,
location and time) onto tht image. It was intended to be the most
graphically intense to catch the eyes of the younger generation. With
that said, our event will be free so we will not be profiting from the
use of their image nor did we try to cover up Nintendo's logo.

When speaking with the fellow librarian that our idea for hosting such
an event came from she said that they have not had any legal issues
pertaining to the use of their images. The only tidbit of information
I could located with regards to this matter was on an game journalist
website and he suggested that the use of images should be okay since
those companies are distributing their images (in this case their
computer desktop wallpapers) as promotional material.

I would greatly appreciate the feedback from our group into whether
your libraries has faced similar legal questions and the solutions to
how you overcame this issue. Thanks.

Regards,
Dwight Thompson

[Scott Nicholson]

Here's a related question -

How about Perfomance Rights and games like Guitar Hero and DDR? Are
they considered Public Performances of the music? Has anyone looked
into this?

Scott

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[Lauren Knowlton]

Oh, I highly doubt it. There are so many libraries that have DDR events. I would be very surprised if they have to pay each time...

By the way, this is my first "post/response". Do you all usually introduce yourselves?

-Lauren

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