The war on video game mods that involve Pokémon continues! I can’t say for sure that the Pokémon Company’s renewed focus on taking down anything relating to these mods for 3rd party vid…

  • @TheBest@midwest.social
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    66 months ago

    But the Pokémon themselves are IP of Nintendo at the moment, so their inclusion is technically copyright infringement no?

    • Kairos
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      86 months ago

      You can use copyrighted materials for fair use.

      • @TheBest@midwest.social
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        66 months ago

        Fair use is such a fickle thing. It isn’t the catch all that people want.

        Without express permission from Nintendo, including Pokemon in a mod is copyright infringement.

        Is it transformative? Thats extremely case by case, but Nintendo would make the arguement that mods can act as a market subsitute for their own product (like the guys putting pokemon into palworld).

        IANAL, this is all just my opinion.