The Pokémon Company, partially owned by Nintendo, announced it will investigate Palworld for potentially using its IP and assets.
The Pokémon Company, partially owned by Nintendo, announced it will investigate Palworld for potentially using its IP and assets.
But what about things that weren’t in the trailer? Like certain mon designs. Or the models themselves, which obviously couldn’t have been ripped and compared just from the trailer.
Your hypothesis is that Nintendo, one of the most litigous companies on the planet, that routinely shuts down infringing projects during development, saw that trailer and made no attempt to investigate whether that game might infringe their IP over the last two years? Or that Microsoft, a trillion+ dollar company, would have this game on game pass if they thought it infringed Nintendo’s IP? Or that Nintendo wouldn’t have tried shutting it down the day it came out like they did the palworld mod? That would be a staggering degree of incompetence in an area they are known for being exceedingly qualified.
Microsoft’s lawyers would have to be wrong. Nintendo’s lawyers would have to be sleeping on the job not keeping tabs on that game’s development. Any storefront that hosted Palworld would have to be wrong. And palworld’s developer’s lawyers would have to be wrong. There would have to be an unbelievable chain of lawyers that misjudged the legality of this game for what you proppse to happen. Its just mindblowing how people on the internet that aren’t IP lawyers somehow think they know better than all the lawyers of half a dozen multibillion and sometimes trillion, dollar companies.
But the trailer did not contain any copyright violations or IP infringements. Now the game is out, with lots of content and a huge world, a deep dive can be done and checked every detail if anything violates something. And the game is commercial and out, and the evidence is in their hands if there is any. This can’t be done with just 2 trailers showing 0,05% of the game and content. With the game in their hand, they can compare models exactly in example.
I personally don’t think there is any violation here, but I am not here to judge. I just wanted to explain that this deep dive could not be done in the prior 2 years before.