>>54906230Even if everything about Pokemon Red and Green (and subsequent media) becomes public domain, it'll be so unrecognizably far removed from what Pokemon will be in the 2090's that none of Pokemon's owners will care and neither will the consumers of that era.
The Pikachu, Eevee, Charizard, Gengar, Mewtwo and so forth of the first generation are not the same as the ones we see in the current day, having had careful design tweaks over the years that serve to renew and stabilize those Pokemon in ways that allow them to gather new fans while keeping old ones to the best of their ability, ensuring their most recent versions are the ones the common consumer will think about, unable to be replicated by anyone else that may one day seek to utilize the public domain table scraps.
Those public domain opportunists will have no choice but to stick to the visuals Red and Green's era, and by the time the 2090's rolls in, I highly doubt there will be a market for such a bygone era of Pokemon when virtually everyone who was originally there for it will be long dead or senile.
