I'm not a lawyer but the guy should just ignore their demands until they actually take him to court, forget trying to raise the money or whatever since their demands don't have any weight unless some judgement is rendered against him. I really doubt they would actually put in the time and expense of taking him to court over $4000.
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The Pokémon Company Sues Fan for Copyright Infringement, Demands $4,000 in Damages
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sakipon
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Thread title seems misleading, should be sues cafe instead of sues fan. I doubt they'd care if he held a free Pokemon party at his home or some hall. But the guy has been luring fans into his cafe for several years in a row. He's making profit.
This might be news to you, but a ton of consumers only glance at things and assume whatever. Therefore use of official art in advertising is protected and so it should be.
This might be news to you, but a ton of consumers only glance at things and assume whatever. Therefore use of official art in advertising is protected and so it should be.
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Nintendo are the de facto owners of Pokemon and its related companies. They own the big share of all the parties involved in Pokemon. It's not far fetched to point out the Nintendo corporate culture imo
Again, there has to be something more to this.
No it doesn't.
If it was to do with Nintendo, Nintendo would get involved. Trust me.
They are different companies and Nintendo doesn't have the majority stake in The Pokémon Company so yes, it is farfetched to point it out.
No it doesn't.
If it was to do with Nintendo, Nintendo would get involved. Trust me.
They are different companies and Nintendo doesn't have the majority stake in The Pokémon Company so yes, it is farfetched to point it out.
Nintendo owns 33% of TPC. TPC has their own company president and does things autonomously from Nintendo. It's why Pokemon's been on mobile for years and why Pokemon sounds aren't in Mario Maker.
Assumption
Also 32%, not 33% </pedantic>
But seriously yeah, you are right. It's astonishing that people still don't get this, even when linked to threads explaining it all.
Boss Doggie
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How is it that no matter how much you explain you get adamant people resisting the proper explanation?
Really considering one poster even go to "deflect from Nintendo" makes me assume all this bullshit about ownership is an attempt to make it into a console war.
Not really no, Pokemon is owned by TPCi, not Nintendo. And Nintendo only owns a third or so of TPCi.
Really considering one poster even go to "deflect from Nintendo" makes me assume all this bullshit about ownership is an attempt to make it into a console war.
Not really no, Pokemon is owned by TPCi, not Nintendo. And Nintendo only owns a third or so of TPCi.
Not quite. The Pokémon Company (especially The Pokémon Company International, which is sort of a different thing to The Pokémon Company) doesn't really own anything.
The franchise is co-owned by Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures Inc., the trademarks are owned by Nintendo (for the most part. In Japan, many of the trademarks are also co-owned).
It's all a big mess
Boss Doggie
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Not quite. The Pokémon Company (especially The Pokémon Company International, which is sort of a different thing to The Pokémon Company) doesn't really own anything.
The franchise is co-owned by Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures Inc., the trademarks are owned by Nintendo (for the most part. In Japan, many of the trademarks are also co-owned).
It's all a big mess
Still, TPCi is the one that manages all of the franchise handling, from marketing and merchandising right? That they're given free reign to it?
TPCi handles those things in the west while TPC oversees them and deals with those things in Japan. You keep interchanging TPC and TPCi though. While TPCi does deal with these things in the west, they're just an additional division of TPC.
But yeah, TPC has free reign to the point that they even commission and help work on the spin-offs.
Boss Doggie
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Ahh so TPCi is essentially NoA except more coverage?
Pretty much, yeah.
Starwolf_UK
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While the links in the OP no longer work it the Pokemon company international was rewarded costs which totaled $400 for filing the case and $5000 attorneys fees. Thanks United States District Judge
$4000 is what he managed to negotiate The Pokemon Company down to.
Of course that gets us back to the point of why not just send a cease and desist letter warning about potential legal action over failure to comply rather than blow $5400 going to court? Basically at best the Pokemon Company international has wasted $1400 here and made a PR storm for themselves.
Mysterious
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That link just says that the sole owners of the Pikachu and that green Pokemon character is Nintendo.
In actual damages no, but statutory damages can go from $750 to $150,000 per copyrighted work .
Sir_Crocodile
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all covered
they should sue PETA instead , or even the religious groups that fight Pokemon till now
which pokemon is suing him????
I bet it's Pikachu, I never trusted him
Nose Master
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They're getting serious with some new directions for that franchise again soon. Someone had to be made an example of to scare off people profiting off their characters. It's $4000. It sucks, but it could have been a lot worse.
Boss Doggie
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Dreamwriter
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Exactly - the person isn't being fined for damages, but for knowingly breaking copyright, hoping he was too small for the Pokemon Company to care.
well , maybe you heard of it , but there are still some religious groups think the pokemon is the devil it self
Didn't that recent report to the UN about video games say that too?
hiphoptherobot
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Luring? Haha. Give me a break.I don't know how many times it has to be stated but the event was not even being thrown at the same cafe that this guy works at.
Doug Heffernan
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A Pokemon party with some dude named DJ Dirty Bit sounds like the lamest party ever.
really ? do you have a link for the site ?
And... you think they can be sued for holding those views?
Oh sorry, I misremembered. They called it a killing game for toddlers.
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