Nintendo Trademarks the Sun Goddess Amaterasu

By Stuart Lawrence 29.12.2010 10

Nintendo Trademarks the Sun Goddess Amaterasu on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

I know what your thinking, and no, it's not the rights to Capcom's little white wolf from Okami. But Nintendo have in fact brought the rights to the Shinto Sun Goddess Amaterasu's name in both Katakana and Kanji, but only for use in video games.

Amaterasu has previously been used in many games including Okami on the Nintendo Wii, but there has been no further announcements or details. Images are below:

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What's your take on this new Nintendo Trademark? What games would you like to see the Sun Goddess in?

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SirLink is offline. SirLink 29.12.2010#1

I wonder what Nintendo is plotting again...Smilie

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Wolvesgod is offline. Wolvesgod 29.12.2010#2

Amaterasu sounds like a good name, for a legend of Zelda goddess, or even if they use it in any of their games based on gods goddesses and other, mythological games.

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Vorash Kadan 29.12.2010#3

Mabey a further delving of what Hideo Kojima made with the Boktai series?

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Darkflame is offline. Darkflame 29.12.2010#4

Maybe a sunlight based game.

But this seems a tad...wrong.
I mean, surely the name is public domain? Is this only for a title trademark?

( Edited 29.12.2010 10:07 by Darkflame )

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Stulaw is offline. Stulaw 29.12.2010#5

Darkflame said:
Maybe a sunlight based game.

But this seems a tad...wrong.
I mean, surely the name is public domain? Is this only for a title trademark?

Article Said:but only for use in video games.

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Darkflame is offline. Darkflame 29.12.2010#6

I know.
It can be used in many ways in videogames, I'm assuming this just means the title of the videogame.
It would be quite wrong if somehow a company could buy exclusive rights to use a old goddess's name, even if it is "just in videogames".

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EdEN is offline. EdEN 29.12.2010#7

So, do they get royalties from CAPCOM when Okamiden releases or what?

 
PMD is offline. PMD 29.12.2010#8

Okami confirmed for Brawl!

 
Darkflame is offline. Darkflame 30.12.2010#9

You joke, but Capcom has a fighting game with Okami so its not such a stretch.
(Its the one with Marval characters too, so you could have, say, Okami fighting She Hulk..)

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Kitsune is offline. Kitsune 19.02.2011#10

It's sort of morally debatable. Is it right to copyright a God's name? If someone copyrighted "Jesus", I'm sure alot of people would be up in arms about it.

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