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This was previously posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18557861
Legit impressed it lasted that long without a Nintendo C&D.
You cannot C&D art style. They're not using copyrighted assets or names. "NES" isn't trademarked either and the project claims no affiliation to Nintendo.
"NES" is trademarked. And they are using copyrighted assets, from Mario and Pokemon.
Copyrighted or trademarked? If they drew the Mario or the Pokemon (or got it from someone else who drew it and published it with a liberal license) it's not a copyvio.
"copyvio" A violation of copyright laws: copyright infringement.

Was a new word for me, from Wiktionary

It is terribad.
It's not a word, just a WP shorthand.
Yes. But this is not 'Nam and there are specific and precise rules.

These constructs were already bad and ominous-sounding back when Orwell satirized them. Nazi, Stasi, politburo, COINTELPRO, manipedi.

In some specialized contexts, like Wikipedia talk pages, they are arguably unavoidable but still bad.

Out in the wild they are terribad.

I'm not defending it! I wrote it out of laziness. Though I find what you did to Walter Sobchak there more offensive. It's not 'Nam and there are rules, or it isn't and there aren't! This isn't 'Nam, 'pvg! There are rules! Am I the only one here who gives a shit about the rules!?
"NES" is not trademarked, outside of "oils and essential oils". http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:hhi...

You're thinking of Nintendo Entertainment System. http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:hhi...

Happy to be proven wrong if you can find the matching one.

As for the copyrighted assets… where? In the demo? Those aren't in the code FWICS. (Edit: and as tptacek says, they're not original assets either, which makes this a similar scenario as having a github logo in an icon font)

Apart from perhaps the mouse cursors, what could Nintendo possibly claim?

It's Atari's arcade font from 1978 paired with some generic low-res graphics.

Wow looks great. I'll be using it in my projects.
Someone should make a twitter clone in this NES style. Might be more peaceful and fun to read. Good exercise for a CS student just starting out.
Totally going to use this on the PhaserJS project I'm doing for work!