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…

  • KairosEnglish
    28•8 months ago

    Uhh. Isn’t that illegal to do? The DMCA is only for things copyrighted by the owner, and they don’t own the other game and certaintly not the fair use recording of the person playing the game.

    • IaparEnglish
      11•8 months ago

      Is it possible to DMCA strike every video on the official Pokémon YouTube channel?

    • @[email protected]English
      3•8 months ago

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

      • KairosEnglish
        8•8 months ago

        You can use copyrighted materials for fair use.

        • @[email protected]English
          4•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.