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bro stop watching moon channel

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No he's correct, if you don't chase up trademark disputes you can lose your trademarks. Nintendo had this exact thing happen with a donkey kong trademark back in the 90s, it's why they are so aggressive about taking down anything that even remotely targets their IPs nowadays.

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trademark laws are stupid af

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It only becomes a problem if a product actually gets popular enough to reasonably cause brand confusion to the point of being genericized. Some fan remake of a nearly 30-year-old game will not cause confusion with the actual original Link's Awakening game for the Game Boy. Yes, a company should be somewhat proactive about defending their own trademark to prevent it from being deemed genericized, but not every little case of a fan work has to be fought against even though yes, you could. It's pants-on-the-head stupid and not even Nintendo does that as Moon Channel himself emphasizes. Yet your average follower of him forgets this nuance and it's why a channel like him can be so dangerous: because he's a lawyer, people partially and uncritically accepts everything he says without being able to finish the rest of the mental work and it's also on him for not using his own position as a lawyer to try and criticize this.

Incorrect. The dude straight up said " This isn't a copyright infringement", which it most certainly is. 
Not only are the assets here copyrighted material, but the software also serves as a replacement to the original piece.  
If you either scanned the pages of a book or went the effort to retype the book without the rights to copy it, you are violating the copyright. This isn't just trademark infringement.  

Do I completely agree with the current absurdity of these laws? 
The answer to this would be the same to the following question:
Do I make the laws?

Trademark infringement is WORSE than copyright infringement. When I saw this isn't copyright but trademark, I'm saying it's worse legally speaking.