This is crazy, also you know how fucked up this could actually be for Kojima? Bare with my speculation here but if Konami wanted to put Kojima in an eternal litigious nightmare they could. We're talking about a powerful/rich company that allowed him a degree of fame and expressive freedom, stemmed from their property, so as a contingency plan may have had litigators in the periphery documenting every infraction to company policy not only on Kojima but his colleagues. This could be their ammo to fuel litigation that lasts for years where Konami (if they were clever about it) can manipulate Kojima into capitulating. lol I mean, at some point, this can be seen as extortion.
Of course this speculation could all be bullshit
