By asking permission. Now that I’ve dug deeper, both of those shops are in violation of US law. Blockbuster V Nintendo was in 1989 and was actually over the instruction books, not the games. In December of 1990, Bush Sr. signed the Computer Software Rental Amendments Act, which changed copyright law “Prohibiting the…

Its likely been left alone because places like Nintendo don’t know it exists. Too small, not making enough money, located in a state where they don’t have a location. They didn’t care about the Pokemon thing until something like its 3rd or 4th year, when they realized at A it existed and B someone was trying to make…

The American version of First Doctrine isn’t completely codified, but with software, its treated like movies and music. You can sell the disc/cart, but only if you destroy all other copies you own.
I had to dig into American law a bit on this, but I suspect Canadian law in this is similar. You can rent games out if you…

They paid them, from the looks of it, way back in 1990.

I live in Seattle, we have a lot of places that do it with board games. The couple of places that tried with video game consoles got shut down or dropped the consoles (the one that still does it, also has board games, and theme menus etc, so I’m assuming they’re using that argument). I’m not sure if this is because…

Likely would have happened, and probably has happened, in the US. We just don’t put that much focus on these things so it’s rarely reported. Violation here would be exactly the same, which is why you don’t see these types of shops all over the US.

Library likely has an agreement with the developers, or are claiming a fair use exemption, both of which are possible and legal.
The game bar is trickier, is it using the video games (that aren’t arcade cabinets) as the way to bring you in, or is it more they just happened to be there and aren’t the main pull of the…

Most places, in both Japan and America, arcade cabinets come with an agreement allowing you to profit off the machine, it’s usually stuck somewhere on the machine or would come with the documentation on the machine. Even if the paperwork is lost, the agreement would still exist and by buying the machine, that license…

Game rentals ARE a crime in most places without paying for a license to rent it out. This is true in America.

You can’t “rent” the game to anyone without paying for that license, even here in America. Sounds like Japan realized they were trying to sneak around the law and shut it down anyway.

And yet most of these same devs also make PC versions of the games that can run on PCs that are ages old and weaker than the switch by lowering the graphics. They can and I suspect will, start porting to the switch. They held back at first because they expected it to flop (I suspect EA prayed it would flop), not only…

What took them so long? America has had ones branded “Pokemon Centers” for years now. Heck, local grocery store just added a Pokemon CCG specific one a few months back.

People can totally join the Space Force. It will be like the Air Force, but in space. It will be the best Space Force, with all the best people.

The door wasn’t locked because Georgia fire code requires that the door remain unlocked until all customers have left.

The door weren’t locked because Georgia has a fire code that states you can’t lock the doors while a customer is still in the establishment. Doesn’t mean they’re open.

Except many states REQUIRE the door to be unlocked as long as any customer is inside. Meaning with your logic, its possible to force a business to be open forever, which in turn causes it owns legal nightmare of pay, overtime, etc. No, if they have a time marked and its past the time, they’re closed, you don’t get to…

Some states require the doors to remain unlocked as long as a patron is still inside. Georgia appears to be one of these states.

Some states don’t allow the door to be locked for fire code reasons.

Read the whole story they linked to

You make assumptions.
1. No where does it say the staff permitted them to enter. As it has been established, the fire code in most states require the doors to be unlocked while patrons are still present. All we have is the ladies claiming they were permitted to enter to see some friends who were dining already. The…