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

submitted 10 months ago by Stovetop to c/nintendo

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[–] willis936 8 points 10 months ago

Palworld didn't plagiarize them. This is what the kids call a nothingburger.

Obviously there are loads of similar designs, but in a way that indicates illegal asset stealing? That’s a different question, and so-called “lazy design” aping on other creations doesn’t qualify as actual theft unless it can be explicitly proven.

More grimly, it is a big corporation trying to squash an upstart competitor and suppress art. If they succeed then it is truly dystopian and a sign that we need more legal protections against overzealous copyright litigators.