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Repokémon – Showcase of GitHub Repos with Pokémon Names
- antoineMoPa 10y agoWhat happens when many repos by different Github users have the same pokémon's name?
- m3Lith 10y agoIt takes the one with the most stars.
- cheeaun 10y agoYeap, the one with most stars. I was thinking of getting most forks if say multiple repos with exact same number of stars, but I guess I was lazy.
- lcnmrn 10y agoWhy don’t find a way to list them all? You can click a Pokemon and a list pops under just like an iTunes album.
- j2kun 10y agoWould a company send a DMCA notice for a github repo whose title is a trademarked character's name? (Is there a MickeyMouse project?)
- x1798DE 10y agoI don't think DMCA can be used for trademark infringement, just copyright.
- Natsu 10y agoIn theory that's true, but in practice it gets used for that.
- pluma 10y agoAnd if they do that, they commit a felony. That is, if it's actually a DMCA claim and if that DMCA claim is patently invalid (trademarks are not covered by copyright, so filing a DMCA claim on trademark grounds would be obviously invalid). Most of the time the things people call "DMCAs" aren't actual DMCA takedown requests, though. For example YouTube blocks a lot of content based on automated flagging which doesn't even invoke the DMCA -- illegitimate flagging isn't illegal, it's often not even a violation of the ToS, even if it causes lost revenue.
- Natsu 10y agoSFAIK (IANAL), the perjury bit only applies if they claim in a DMCA takedown to represent a copyright holder they do not actually represent, so I'm not clear on what you're saying about a felony. While I certainly agree that abusing DMCA notices is a bad thing, I have only ever seen a few really egregious filings get punished and even that was marginal. I'm honestly surprised that there hasn't been more pushback. I've seen some pretty idiotic filings...
- pluma 10y agoIANAL either, but filing a DMCA takedown request to claim copyright infringement where there is none is always perjury. You don't have to claim you own something someone else does, you merely have to claim infringement where there is none -- that's far easier to mess up. So using a DMCA takedown request because of a trademark infringement if there isn't also a copyright infringement would be perjury because you're making a bogus claim. AFAICT this would only matter if both sides ended up pursuing legal action (i.e. the DMCA counter-claim is resisted). The only example of DMCA abuse being punished I've seen so far is the infamous YouTube drama between thunderf00t and VenomFangX (who ended up reading a prepared statement as part of an out-of-court settlement with tf00t to avoid facing legal consequences). I think most people aren't willing to actually sue DMCA trolls or are unsure about their actual legal position. It's certainly understandable why a company like Google might be more likely to just follow the rules instead of taking a stand as long as they're not affected directly. And tools like YouTube's automated content claims completely circumvent the need for "content owners" to invoke DMCA and risk legal consequences.
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- jychang 10y agoYes. I have previously made a simple Chrome extension that contained Pokemon stuff, but certainly derivative work that should not be considered copyright infringement. (The extension replaced facebook reactions with Pokemon faces, if you're wondering). I got DMCA'd by Nintendo anyways. I didn't bother fighting it, since it wasn't worth my time for a one-day project. Nintendo of America has overzealous paralegals that WILL go DMCA anything pokemon related.
- JoshTriplett 10y ago> The extension replaced facebook reactions with Pokemon faces, if you're wondering If you mean images of Pokémon, those would be copyrighted. Still ridiculous, but consistent with copyright law, and not an obvious case for fair use either.
- libeclipse 10y agoHow does it find the repositories?
- cheeaun 10y agoI wrote a script to call the GitHub search api for every single name https://github.com/cheeaun/repokemon/blob/master/scripts/repokemon.js https://github.com/cheeaun/repokemon/blob/master/scripts/rep...
- rosstex 10y agoThis is cool! Is there a way to sort by popularity?
- cheeaun 10y agoThanks! Currently no sort/filters. I'm planning to add those soon :) By popularity, do you mean the repos or the pokemon?
- ZenoArrow 10y agoI'd like to see this too. I'd say the best way to organise it would be total number of GitHub stars (across all projects with the Pokémon name). From a quick glance, looks like Jolteon would be number 1 in the list.
- lagadu 10y ago> By popularity, do you mean the repos or the pokemon? Yes :) (I would assume repo popularity, as pokemon popularity can already be found elsewhere)
- pepijndevos 10y agoThese are some of the best repos actually about Pokemon https://github.com/pret/ https://github.com/pret/
- noahmorrison 10y agoI had a project[1] that was named after a Pokemon. It was a mustache[2] parser so I named it Entei because he has a very fashionable mustache. I changed the name[3] to chevron because I didn't want to deal with Nintendo's lawyers. [1] https://github.com/noahmorrison/chevron https://github.com/noahmorrison/chevron [2] https://mustache.github.io/ https://mustache.github.io/ [3] https://github.com/noahmorrison/chevron/commit/42a028f597171e3ef9eacad8be5b79099c048c75 https://github.com/noahmorrison/chevron/commit/42a028f597171...
- jofer 10y agoIf you're worried about lawyers, why change it to the name of one of the largest companies in the world?
- acomjean 10y agoChevron is also a generic dictionary word. (A line or stripes as an inverted V). Its used on military uniforms. And the term "chevron" was used in the game starship titanic, where I learned its meaning.
- zero_iq 10y agoBecause giant international oil companies' lawyers are famously a pushover compared to Nintendo's...?
- AdmiralAsshat 10y agoRelated: My company recently announced that they were phasing out our VMWare licenses in favor of something called Metapod: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/metapod/index.html https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-managem... I still can't take it seriously.
- hackerling 10y agoI'm sorry but could someone explain to me the point of this? I can see it be amusing to have repos with pokemon names, but for practicality, I would have no idea what they are for by reading the name.
- slazaro 10y agoThere are a TON of names for projects and companies that are not related at all to what they do. Is Apple a fruit company?
- vnchr 10y agoRelated: I had an evening project making a Pokémon Go icon set / emoji pack for Slack: https://github.com/israelvicars/pkmn-go-emoji https://github.com/israelvicars/pkmn-go-emoji @andyjiang / @lambtron was kind enough to add them to the emojipacks project: https://github.com/lambtron/emojipacks https://github.com/lambtron/emojipacks
- bitwize 10y agoLambtron? Named after the Chinpokomon?
- chimeracoder 10y agoEver since learning how Java's Swing got its name[0], Pokemon are actually my go-to for project codenames. They're fun and memorable, and Nintendo is litigious enough that there's no way you can actually release something with the name of a pokemon. [0] https://blogs.oracle.com/thejavatutorials/entry/why_is_swing_called_swing https://blogs.oracle.com/thejavatutorials/entry/why_is_swing...