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…

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.socialEnglish
    82·
    9 months ago

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

    • KairosEnglish
      91·
      9 months ago

      You can use copyrighted materials for fair use.

      • TheBest@midwest.socialEnglish
        71·
        9 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.