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The war on video game mods that involve Pokémon continues! I can’t say for sure that the Pokémon Company’s renewed focus on taking down anything relating to these mods for 3rd party vid…

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[–] LodeMike 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Uhh. Isn't that illegal to do? The DMCA is only for things copyrighted by the owner, and they don't own the other game and certaintly not the fair use recording of the person playing the game.

[–] Iapar@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it possible to DMCA strike every video on the official Pokémon YouTube channel?

[–] TheBest@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But the Pokémon themselves are IP of Nintendo at the moment, so their inclusion is technically copyright infringement no?

[–] LodeMike 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use copyrighted materials for fair use.

[–] TheBest@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair use is such a fickle thing. It isn't the catch all that people want.

Without express permission from Nintendo, including Pokemon in a mod is copyright infringement.

Is it transformative? Thats extremely case by case, but Nintendo would make the arguement that mods can act as a market subsitute for their own product (like the guys putting pokemon into palworld).

IANAL, this is all just my opinion.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it also be dependent on receiving some sort of income from it? Also nal

[–] TheBest@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually, I don't think so. Thats why Nintendo shits on a bunch of fan ports and remake projects.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Fair point, like Uranium years back

[–] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Abuse maybe, but illegal? No.

Its kinda like sending a "cease and desist" letter with a lawyer's letterhead (usually an empty threat) but with the automoderation system in place about copyrighted works it winds up being up to the person defending themself from the claim to do the work to prove fair use instead of the person making the claim of infringement.

[–] LodeMike 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm like 90% sure the form says "under penalty of perjury I confirm that these statements are accurate and true."

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The original DMCA wording was very very harsh when it came to frivolous fillings. Hopefully it won't shock you to believe that it's rarely enforced and almost never enforced for large Corpos.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure there's words there but are they actually legally actionable? Like something in an EULA that says, we reserve the right to delete this from your hardware if you don't sent us a cookie every six months. Its there... but it doesn't matter.

[–] LodeMike 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's literally perjury so yes

[–] D61@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not everything in a contract would be allowed to be enforced by law.. so no.

Try writing a contract that includes voluntary cannibalism, let it get out to the public, and see if the police just let that slide.

[–] LodeMike 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay you know what? YOU look up the DMCA and what a DMCA takedown order requires.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Fair... I'm pretty sure I was being needlessly evasive/pedantic.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

And that's why I stopped buying their shit.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Niantic needs money I guess.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Makes sense. That company has been trash for years. Ever since they blocked rooted phones I've had no respect for them.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they fuck with Jrose11 I'll riot.

[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They definitely better leave him alone.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I heard about this from a video talking about how Relic Castle was taken down.

As of I didn't need anymore reasons to buy a physical copy of The Anarchist Cookbook!

[–] shea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's a terrible resource and you shouldn't use any of the outdated, dangerous advice in it. The internet has way better resources nowadays and If you think you need any of the advice in that book I'd suggest finding up to date info first and checking yourself.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago