Sure. They could do something in Japan, but if they want to force the development to stop they need to use the laws where the developers are (probably the US). If they want to go after the github (assuming they’re using that for some reason) repo, Microsoft is an American company so US law applies.
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 4 months ago
www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/
Actually because Nintendo is a Japanese company it means Japanese law applies to their work in America and America will facilitate the laws execution as if it was it’s own because we are in this treaty.
It’s why Nintendo gets away with all of its bullshit already. Because they are following Japanese copyright law which is significantly more heavy than American.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
OK, yeah. Even still, looking into Japanese copyright law (as an outsider with little understanding), it doesn’t seem like there’s anything that would protect against this, which makes sense because that’d be crazy. This is a totally new work that happens to operate on existing work. It doesn’t use anything created by Nintendo. It should not be an issue.
If you can point to something that actually says this would be protected against, go for it. I highly doubt there is such a thing though. It’d make something like a printer with a scanner potentially illegal because it operates on someone else’s works to produce an output.