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…

  • Kairos
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    8 months ago

    You can use copyrighted materials for fair use.

    • TheBest@midwest.social
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      8 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.