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[-] AClassyGentleman@lemmy.world 166 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One extra thing a lot of articles haven't pointed out is that the mod was locked behind a patreon paywall. Sticking mods behind paywalls has been a hot subject (to put it gently) in the community for a while now. Not to rush to the defense of the most profitable franchise in the world, but yeah that's absolutely gonna get you shut down.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 94 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Paywalled mods are debatable themselves. Throwing one of the most protected IPs that’s ever existed in the mix?

Lmao, yeah. Of course this would happen.

I’m surprised it hasn’t happened to Palworld directly.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 38 points 11 months ago

My guess is Palworld has done their homework on how to be "legally distinct" enough. It's quite a different gameplay loop, after all and Nintendo can't copyright "cute little animals that do the manual labour for the humies" otherwise things like Digimon already wouldn't exist.

[-] lelgenio@lemmy.ml 74 points 11 months ago
  • Posts "Surprised Picachu face" image
  • Gets DMCA'ed by Nintendo lawyers
[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 48 points 11 months ago

try a disappointed sparkit

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 36 points 11 months ago

I'm so behind on Pokemon that I genuinely can't tell if this is a Pokemon or a Pal.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 23 points 11 months ago
[-] orbitz@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

As someone with minimal pokemon knowledge, only played two due to being older and not having Nintendo consoles really, I thought this game was a spin off till I realized no big pokemon or Nintendo logo anywhere. They must have threaded the needle to avoid that copyright infringment.

[-] Cypher@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

They’ve done a great job and nailing the art style modern Pokemon games should have had, while being distinct enough to avoid any serious chances of a lawsuit winning.

Modders will be the ones running afoul of Nintendos lawyers.

[-] Aermis@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

As long as the mods are free (can't monetize on IP) most mods should be legally safe from copyright. But I'm not a lawyer so not sure how this works.

[-] Jako301@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago

Nah, once you start distributing the mod, be it free or not, it's copyright infringement. They can't sue you for the profits made, but they can still force you to take it down and pay reparations for any potential damage to their IP, as stupid as that may sound.

[-] Aermis@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

So the pokemon mod for minecraft can be sued and taken down?

[-] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It actually had been, yes.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago

Nintendo is going to be watching this motherfucker till the end of time

[-] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago
[-] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

That poor guy got screwed. His life is forever changed because of a fucking Switch mod

[-] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 39 points 11 months ago

I don't get how this is news, it's the most predictable, obvious outcome.

Nintendo literally DMCA's hentai artists bro.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One of these days I want to see it go to court just so that the judge and jury has to discuss the legitimacy of sexualized cartoon animals, with the defence forced to keep a straight face as they try to explain why a person banging a goodra with giant jugs in a wedding dress isn't infringing copyright. Just a bunch of professional adults in a room forced to dance around the elephant in the room because it's irrelevant to the case.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Slow news day for games journalism and writers trying to justify their paychecks. Plus, I'd imagine it helps those who were running bets not on if Nintendo would crush it, but how long before they did.

[-] Seaguy05@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

They were so busy thinking to NintenDO the mod. Instead they should have been thinking NintenDONT break copyright laws.

[-] FrankLaskey@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago

Wow.. didn’t see that coming.. /s

[-] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately that sounds like a clear cut case. Iirc they have copyright to the creatures themselves, and that case is very straightforward to prove.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 11 points 11 months ago

This was expected, concidering it's using copyrighted characters

[-] BassaForte@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

That's not even it. It's because it was paywalled. The Minecraft Pokemon mod has stuck around.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Should have done what that terrible zelda unity port did; have the project free to download with a patreon on the side.

[-] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 11 months ago
[-] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

Yeah turns out putting it behind a paywall pisses of Nintendo lmao.

[-] Aermis@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah you can't make money off of copyrighted intellectual property without seeing some lawyers.

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