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The Pokémon Company Announces It Will ‘Investigate’ Palworld IP And Assets (www.forbes.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Per copyright law in the United States, the designs must be 15% different to create one's own artistic copyright. They're several that are close, but 15% isn't that much. Obviously Nintendo isn't a US company, but it'll be interesting to set how this goes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure this is a common myth. I'm curious if anyone has a source on this.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh man time to bring out the popcorn.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean. The guy who "broke" the story of IP "theft" in pal world admitted he made it up. Basically scaled models etc to make them look similar on purpose.

https://screenrant.com/palworld-pokemon-asset-copy-claims-lies-apology/#:%7E:text=Claims%20that%20Palworld%20used%20assets,Pok%C3%A9mon%20in%20aesthetics%20and%20design.

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