Comment on Pokémon Co. Is Now DMCAing Years Old Videos Showing Pokémon Modded Into Other Games
TheBest@midwest.social 8 months agoBut the Pokémon themselves are IP of Nintendo at the moment, so their inclusion is technically copyright infringement no?
LodeMike@lemmy.today 8 months ago
You can use copyrighted materials for fair use.
TheBest@midwest.social 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.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Wouldn’t it also be dependent on receiving some sort of income from it? Also nal
TheBest@midwest.social 8 months ago
Actually, I don’t think so. Thats why Nintendo shits on a bunch of fan ports and remake projects.