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Nintendo hit a mod with a cease and desist within a day of it being announced. There is zero chance they didn't know the game was in development and have a close eye on it. If they're like every other corporation in the world, they have media surveillance teams just for this sort of thing.
Bah, you know what's riding on who's success?
Charles. Diana. PBC.
It's not for a judge to decide, it won't make it to court. At worst, Nintendo will send the devs an email saying 'we think these pals are infringing' and the devs will go 'yes we will change those things' and that will be the end of the discussion.
Remember that in the future Nintendo will have to respect Palworld copyrights when they make new pokemon and they don't want the relationship to be acrimonious.
If you read it again, you'll notice they never specified they were doing anything beyond monitoring the situation. Even if they were planning to sue or burn down their headquarters, it makes no sense to telegraph that publicly. You'd only publish something like that to tell the world 'stop emailing us for the love of god, we're already across it'.
People who fabricate Pokemon plagiarism may be prosecuted in japan.
Actually, it's scary to say that you "suspect someone else's plagiarism"... A large amount of compensation awaits those who "carelessly falsely accuse others of plagiarism" [Explanation by a first-class intellectual property management technician]
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/e07b3f06c75aa2955b03628304dbe5367e084a27
People don't understand that copyright only protects against people stealing your work and selling it as if it was your own without permission, with the exceptions in the case of parody and fair use. That's it...
It's that simple.
Seriously we got Geodude, from Dragon Quest.
Psyduck, from Dragon Quest.
Gamefreak would also be guilty if Palworld got targeted for that reason.
But as fans said, Copyright is different.
If Palworld did what that one mod did, and used models directly from a pokemon game then yes.. That would be a lawsuit.
There can only be so many ways you can draw a chicken, same as there can only be so many cars... If that wasn't the case Ford would sue so many car dealerships.
but, peoples often forget that a lot of other games copie´d pokemon and sticked the tongue out torwards nintendo. so will palworld do aswell. and that with an even greater success then ever lol.
Like Yanmamon, Inspired by Yanma AND named the same. Just added MON to the name.
There are a lot more than that such as caterpillar, bats, ground creature, and many more; but besides that.
Tiger from Monster Rancher is shiny lycanroc and there probably are a few other Monster Rancher ones Pokemon got 'inspiration' from.
Pokemon also straight up rip off artist designs of Fakemon like the whale/human thing and two-headed plants.
If it isn't a common sense lawyer, I could care less. Palworld > pokemon.
You're not Nintendo's lawyers. No fan can dictate what is and isn't copyrighted. Only a judge can dictate that. Even if Nintendo's lawyers think there's legal standing, only the judge can overrule if it's actually copyrighted or not. Yes SOME models are questionable, but for a LOT of the models, people are just grasping at straws for. People mostly just point out SHAPES of the models, but here's the thing. YOU CAN'T COPYRIGHT SHAPES. ALSO, there's a handful of Pokemon that look too similar to Dragon Quest monsters.
At the end of the day, all Palworld would have to do is make new models. This game doesn't have to blink out of existence just because you feel and think it's morally wrong. This game is PARODY. PARODY is protected under fair-use. If Parody was not protected under fair use, we wouldn't have shows like SNL, or South Park, or even Family Guy. And they've been around for YEARS now. And by now I think Pocketpair has proved enough that they are more than capable of redoing the models if need be.
There were models from earlier videos showcasing this game that we never put into the game BECAUSE they were TOO similar to the actual thing, and Pocketpair deleted those videos. So if Nintendo came to Pocketpair and said hey, so and so is too similar, they wouldn't double down, and they would still comply and change them IF NEED BE. They already went after that Pokemon mod for it. They would have went after Palworld at the same time if the issues were that obvious. And they're not obvious because a majority of the Pals are not directly the same as the Pokemon. Again maybe SOME of them are little too close to the sun, but if they were actually infringing upon anything on PURPOSE, it would have been WAY more obvious than what it is now.
Any pokemon proud boy would be lucky if Pocketpair just got a slap on the wrist and just re-made some models.