Guyver, well, as far as fansubs of Anime are concerned, I don't know whether it was like that in the past but it surely isn't anymore right now. Fansubs are (and always were, as far as I know...) illegal modifications and reproductions of copyrighted work. However, it didn't affect any commercial interests of the original authors, it actually helped them by making Anime very popular in the USA. Because of that they never objected against (er... my dictionary says they 'brooked') fansubs and actually have a respectful attitude towards them, even now, although there are currently a fair lot of groups not respecting the 'fansub code', meaning to stop fansubbing and distributing a series after it's licensed. Worst example the recent 'AnimeJunkies' incident. I'm afraid those groups may mean the end of the companies their positive attitudes towards fansubs.

~Grauw

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One last idea: did Konami pay any license to publish the Q*Bert game? Neither in the box nor in the instructions or the game itself I have seen any copyright notice or any agreement with the legal owners of the original name and game idea. Were they sued for this? As far as I know, the answer is NO.

Konami licensed Q*Bert from D. Gottlieb & Co. back in 1982. Proof of this is in MAME, 'qbertjp'.
So there...

Then you are right. But the MSX version doesn't indicate any copyright notice.
And continuing with this thread, what about copyright and game translations?