I KNEW the Nisei folks were into cryptocurrency.
Posted Jan 7, 2022, 5:22 PM UTC
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Seems some crypto coin company is running about. But man, that graphic made me do a double take.
EDIT: Speaking of which, is Nisei's graphic fall under some fair use clause? While I expect it's not copyrighted, doesn't some Creative Commons license require attribution?
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It’s not the NISEI logo per se. Subtle differences. Plus others have made similar “helical N” designs. NISEI would have a hill to climb in arguing it was having its IP appropriated, and would also open themselves up to scrutiny for their own appropriation of Asmodee/Hasbro IP.
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As you say it's different enough from the NISEI logo to not matter, but there's literally not a smidgeon of Hasbro IP in anything NISEI produces, and such tiny slivers of Asmodee IP as are there, such as the names of the cards in SysUp21, or possibly the word "Jinteki", are so slight they'd have a hard time proving their copyright was infringed upon (given the title is only a small part of the card, and both the text and the art was redone), and even if they could prove it had then such infringement would fall easily under most jurisdictions' fair use/fair dealing provisions given they do not affect the market for the original (since it's out of production), are produced on a not-for-profit basis, and will likely just be viewed as fan-made alts.
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Well, yes. And given that fair use is a defense then this would only really get settled were they to take NISEI to court. Which itself would be an expensive enough act that it’d likely shut NISEI down. Y’all don’t have deep enough pockets for that.
I know WotC is well aware of NISEI and really the only thing keeping them from going after NISEI is that they have no current plans for Netrunner. I hope that remains the case even if I’m personally curious about what they’d do with it. I know multiple WotC employees are eager to get a crack at it and I suspect it’s just a matter of time before they come at it again and then we find out how strong of a defense this is.
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Oh for sure Hasbro could throw a bunch of lawyers at us on completely spurious legal grounds and we wouldn't have the money to fight it. But if they try to enforce their trademark we just change the name of the game to Robot: Webjogger or whatever, stick 2 middle fingers up at them, and just keep on trucking! :P
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Lol I saw this on Reddit and thought the same thing
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I 100% read that as "like crypto, but edgy"
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Just saw the promo 2 threads above this. Thought it was for a playmat or new card or something at first.
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Is this an elaborate spoiler for the next NBN ID?
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Nah, [[TGTBT]] reprint /s
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My playgroup and I spent our morning breakfasts before Magnum Opus discussing what a cryptocurrency Corp ID would look like. Our head cannon was such that Apex started a bank of sorts. We had quite a few neat ideas but I think the notebook has been lost to time.
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FLESH BEINGS SHOULD DEPOSIT MONEY INTO HOLDINGS OF ENCRYPTED DIGITAL CURRENCY TO ENSURE I OBTAIN GLOBAL DOMINANCE AND ALSO PROVIDE SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE OF INVESTOR WEALTH
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<+1 Recurring Credit>
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good lord I hate this
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we absolutely, positively, in no uncertain terms, are not
(I know your title is tongue-in-cheek, but just to set the record straight.)
Thank you.
I was wondering because of Volition being distributed as PNP vis blockchain.
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How did a random crypto dingus wander into the netrunner subreddit lmao
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