Despite being almost two decades old and only ever having been released in Japan, Mother 3 has an enormous cult following. It's the Earthbound sequel that fans have been begging Nintendo to localize for years, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:despite the public outcry, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo never got around to it. And it might have everything to do with Mother 3's musical references.
How can a few musical references stop a beloved RPG from being given its long-awa🍌ited English localization (or any other localization, for that matter)? (via ), a lawyer who recently posted th💙eir analysis in a video on YouTube, the reason has to do with copyright law.
It all stems back to a 2017 lawsuit. Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were defending themselves from accusations of copyright infringement for their song "Blurred Lines." The family of Marvin Gaye accused the two songwriters of copying Gaye's songs "Got to Give it Up" and "Sexy Ways," two funk songs written in the '70s. "Blurred Lines" never went as far as copying notes or lyrics, but it sure did "feel" extremely similar to Gaye's earlier works.
After an eight-month lawsuit, a jury agreed with the Gaye family and awarded them $7.4 million in damages that were eventually reduced to just over $5 million. But the point is that this case set a legal precedent for the music industry: it wasn't enough to simply not copy musical notes, lyrics, or arrangements to avoid infringement anymore.
As for Mother 3, the game from the Beatles to Michael Jackson. If actual musicians weren't enough, it also samples the Batman Theme, Jaws, and the 20th Century Fox jingle, not to mention the classical works of Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach. Nintendo would have to secure the legal rights to most of these songs just to localize Mother 3 or otherwise would have to rewrite numerous sections of the game.
Moon argues that the cost to do e🎃ither of these things would be prohibitively high for a 17-year-old game originally from the GBA era. Judging by the fact there’s still no Mother 3 in North America or Europe, he might be right. But Nintendo has a habit of surprising us, so never give up hope.