Ken Arromdee wrote:
Well, a common, similar, case is popular culture articles in general, but most of them have a loophole: a movie, book, etc. is itself a source for its own content. Using a pinball machine in a similar way is, of course, original research, but it's also an excellent example of how Ignore All Rules applies to anything, even original research.
The difference is that a book/album/movie is published in a way that observing a machine isn't.
The answer, of course, is to adjust the original research policy to allow for such reasonable situations, not simply rely on IAR to muddle through.
-Jeff