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Modder Who Put Pokémon Into Palword Says 'Nintendo Has Come for Me' (sea.ign.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How is it that the pokemon mod for minecraft never received such pushback from nintendo, but this modder gets DMCA'd on the spot? Fair use should cover using characters. There's plenty of games that re-use characters as mods (look at skyrim and all the ridiculous mods that import characters from other franchises).

All this copyright nonsense over a free mod is just a waste of resources.

[–] PlzGivHugs 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

All this copyright nonsense over a free mod is just a waste of resources.

This is what it boils down to, not that these mods are legal. Copyright is basically meant to block anything that could even remotely compete with the work, and give a monopoly over the idea. Doesn't matter if its a free passion project or a billion dollar company. Thats part of why its so absurd that copyright lasts so long. That said, most don't want to spend a fortune playing whack-a-mole with their own fans' free passion projects, unless those passion projects compete with them directly. That might even be why Pixelmon is left up - its seen as too janky to directly compete whereas this mod/game combo is pretty much what fans have been asking GameFreak to make for a decade and as a paid, commercial product at that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because rightsholders have discretion about who they take action against. In this case, Nintendo doesn't want violence and Pokémon together, so it gets taken down. Minecraft is nonviolent (at least no more than Pokémon itself) so it gets a pass.

They would also take something down for being for-profit or competes with their own products (e.g AM2R being taken down right before Samus Returns came out).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nobody tell Nintendo about the Gardevoir mod for Kobold Kare. If they don't want them associated with violence, they probably really don't want them associated with being an egg shitting cum balloon