Nintendo won its lawsuit against rom site RomUniverseand RomUniverse was ordered to pay $2.1 million in damages. Nintendo filed the lawsuit seeking more than $15 million in damages for damages arising from copyright and trademark infringement.
Nintendo had asked for $90,000 (49 in total) for each of the copyrighted works at RomUniverse and $400,000 for 29 trademarks. So the amount of compensation he wanted for trademarks alone was $12 million.
The court fined a total of $400,000 for all trademarks; For the work, which was requested for $90,000, the amount of compensation was set at $35,000. That’s $2,115,000 in total compensation.
The judge ruled that RomUniverse owner Matthew Storman“directly benefited financially from users downloading video games from the website where Nintendo owns copyright.”
In the process, one of Storman’s biggest mistakes was not asking for a lawyer and defending himself in court. This unsuccessful defense of Storman, who did not admit to uploading files to RomUniverse and said that “I was not checking the contents of the uploaded ROM files”, was of course not accepted.
Nintendo filed the lawsuit in September 2019, and the site remained open while the lawsuit was ongoing, and was subsequently shut down in the summer of 2020.
