Do you think those cake makers now own the rights to Mario cakes? Do you understand that Mario chocolates was an example off the top of my head, and not a specific clause for you to argue with? Replace "Mario chocolates" with "Mario giraffe saddles" if it helps you. If you think the reference to music is somehow a…

That's a fair argument about Superman. I loved Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and I'd be furious if that got taken of the shelves because of a claim from the estate of Robert Louis Stevenson. It's a separate matter in copyright though. Not all countries would have protected Superman's copyright for so…

Hello Open Thread. I just saw this video on The Guardian, and I thought you might like to see it. http://www.theguardian.com/business/video…

I don't think sex work is bad at all, and nor do I think drugs are bad. The OP finds it impossible to believe that people would ever break the law because of their housing costs and other financial pressures, and I'm saying they would and they do. I am not damning anything here, and if I was it would be uncapped rents.

Gareth Edwards made Monsters for £15k, by doing all the CGI himself on his computer, doing all the editing, etc. The eventual budget was only higher than that because of marketing costs, which dwarfed the production in this case. Usually they don't, and often the film costs as much to promote and distribute as it does…

You're missing the point that they're taking Kickstarter contributors' money for something that they're doing in a half-arsed way. That's a bad thing, and it's worth getting angry about that. Also, when this thing inevitably goes tits up, it'll be yet another story that damages Kickstarter as a whole. People like…

They don't have to file for an extension. You can't, for example, say that Nintendo didn't file for copyright to cover novelty chocolates and therefore you're going to make Mario chocolates. That is not how this works. They own Metroid, in any form (other than in cases where "fair use" covers similarities, such as a…

It's got to be this one, hasn't it?

Hmm, makes first and only post to shower praise on JoshRJ's post, and express opinion on the recent history of this site...

I expect there'll be a lot of post-grads in to correct me, then. They're not going to be correcting me on the cost of living though!

I'm not denying there are a lot of racist people here. They're wrong, and so is anyone else who says you're not British.

UK students still aren't doing anything like 70-80 hours a week, even if you count in study time at home. They can't, because they've got to be able to work jobs to get an income.

It is different. Fan art is not an entertainment product. Nintendo would never be looking to branch out into fan art, but they have branched out into movies before (such as the critically acclaimed Super Mario movie. Cough) and it's their right alone to make Metroid movies. I have no idea where you're going with this…

You'll not be working 70-80 hours a week at a UK university. The most intensive courses will take 37 hours of university time, oddly courses like Graphic Design BAs, but those are rare. A Psychology degree course is about 10 hours a week - that's a common requirement. Biology would be perhaps 15 hours a week,…

But if it's too short to tie up, it's too short to bother you, surely? He's jumping the bun. Premature entangulation. Wishful crimping. Etcetera.

You say that, but it's actually kind of adorable (see below).

I assume he was telling the press conference that very story when the photo was taken, judging by the hand gesture.

I suspect he got this from people calling Trump "The Donald"? It's really hard to tell. Humour is a foreign concept to a lot of fascists.

If anyone ever calls you a chief in the south east of England, they're calling you a cock.

I think it's been really important for allowing us to break down some racial problems. Obviously, like any majority-white country, we've got a long way to go, and I would never be so naïve as to suggest that music is any kind of panacea, but I think we'd be in a much worse state if not for all culture's eagerness to…