>>30939276>>30939276>>30938336>>30939037>>30939216>>30939423>>30939969>>30940167>>30940271>I don't know why copyright exists: the postsThe only reason companies have a right to decide how theitr work is used at all is because it's intended to be a temporary incentive for them to continually make new ones. By allowing them to temporarily profit off of it, and then losing the right to, there's a reason for them to contiually make more content,
The entire purpose of IP law, not even just for copyright, is for the public good, not private profit. Companies and individuals have no and should have no inherent right to control their discoveries and creations. Fangames, if anything, are completely in line with the purpose of it, because it's fostering the creation of new content the public can consume without interfering with the incentiization of the creation of new IP's.
And even if it was, in any sane system where term lengths are actually defined to be a period of time to execute the intended purpose of copyright law, the Pokemon IP would be in the public domain already.
Furthermore, companies have absoluteloy zero obligation to take down infirning content for copyright. They don't lose their right to it if they don't or anything of the sort. With trademarks, there is a process called genericization where if the use of the brand name in the public's eye it becomes synonbmous with the product type itself, such as if "nintendo" became synomous with "a video game console regardless of brand", then they lose it, but obvious fangames and fanworks have absolutely no impact on that.
No, you don't. That's only for trademarks and even then it wouldn't require you to go
