Fair use is not just an US thing. IDK if Japan has an equivalent of it, but other countries certainly do.I saw a great thing on this. The Palworld company and the Pokemon Nintendo company are all in Japan. Meaning their laws apply not US laws. Meaning there is no such thing as fair use.
I think the precedent is that it needs to be 20% different to be not considered infringing. The only place where nintendo has a chance is the design of the creatures, because the rest of the game is certainly different enough to be not a problem.I(m not too versed on all the legalities, but around 90% or so of games should be in serious trouble as they are based on previous types of games id software could stop all fps games from releasing (or whoever had ther first fps game) etc..
I'd not base an article on social media posts about a controversy. Just too many people willing to outright lie or fabricate evidence, or simply too uninformed and dumb to know any better but talk with such confidence as if they have irrefutable evidence.Apparently, and not yet verified, one of the folks posting that they had proof of 1:1 character design copies, has come out and said they faked their findings. However, that is only just one specific person and the others were not making the exact same claims/posts. Almost did a story on it today but that posters social media page went "poof" so I held off. If more develops by tomorrow I let you know.
Exactly. I was waiting to see if something more credible would surface, and well, as of this morning nada. I did come across a Palword-themed PC case though -lol.I'd not base an article on social media posts about a controversy. Just too many people willing to outright lie or fabricate evidence, or simply too uninformed and dumb to know any better but talk with such confidence as if they have irrefutable evidence.
Well at least this time they are not suing fans for a community-made project, but rather another game developer.Nintendo suing someone is a normal Monday for them. I'm already at my limit, I can't hate them any harder.