> Am I not allowed to draw Mario
Probably not for anything commercial, not for any exhibitions or public viewing etc. You'd have to check the actual trademarks etc.
Probably not for anything commercial, not for any exhibitions or public viewing etc. You'd have to check the actual trademarks etc.
Basically, IANAL, but if you just draw a picture of Mario, all you can do is hang it on your fridge. If you make it out of colored oatmeal, that may be enough of a transformative work for you to be able to sell and exhibit it. Or, say, a satirical cartoon for your newspaper featuring Mario, that might also be okay.
Nintendo isn’t getting a cent from any of this commercial activity.
On Apple Music or Spotify if I search for Mario OST I get a bunch of third party MIDI renderings of various quality.