
Quinneapolis
An interesting legal question: Does the Pokemon Company own the rights to Missingno

TWO OF THEM
probably not, considering they've never acknowledged it in any meaningful capacity

𝗕𝘂𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲
no because i adopted it in '07 and it's legally my child now

TWO OF THEM
i don't believe it's ever been copyrighted either, it'd probably have generated a huge fuss if it had been

Quinneapolis
it seems to hinge on whether or not digitally generated works are eligible for copyright, like if you wrote an AI that generated 1 million books can you be considered the author of those books

Quinneapolis
and the answer, as of 2016 in the US, is you can't

Quinneapolis
but it varies by country

𝗕𝘂𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲
it probably doesn't help that iirc the missingno glitches in japanese rgby are really different from the missingno from the english release

Quinneapolis
then there's copyright vs trademark, like, could you sell a missingno t-shirt

TWO OF THEM
missingno. itself isn't even what everyone tends to think of when they think of it

TWO OF THEM
our blocky friend is actually named 'm

𝗕𝘂𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲
YEAH....

TWO OF THEM
missingno. itself has 5 different things it can look like

𝗕𝘂𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲
[nods sagely, while pretending i didn't get nightmares from the fossil missingnos as a child]

Dragons Dragons
I like the fan interpretations that make it a bird because it used the dummied-out Bird type.

TWO OF THEM
yeah