Fan games are illegal and should be reported to Nintendo. Skip

>>31291215
>Fan games are illegal

No they aren't. As long as they aren't being sold for money, there's no law against them.

>>31291262
>falling for the bait

>>31291262
They take profits out of the pockets of Nintendo. Why buy Sun and Moon when you could just get Uranium and Prism for free? Nintendo should sue them for their losses, consider every download of their game is an official Pokemon game that they could've sold but didn't.

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>>31291215

>>31291286
>Why get the game with new shit when you can play these hacks that are all old and mold

>>31291286
>Downloaded Uranium before Sun and Moon came out
>Bought both Sun, and Moon
>Downloaded Prism after Sun and Moon came out

>>31291332
Sure ya did.

>>31291286

The only people who know about and play fangames are people who already buy the official games, dipshit

>>31291354
Prove it.

>>31291262
How are they not? They don't fall under any of the purpose categories (education, news, criticism), is taking from a creative work instead of a factual one, take a large and core portion of the source material, has the potential for market harm, and is not particularly transformative.

https://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/fairuse

I'm all for rom hacks and other fan works, but the people that make them need to understand they are not legally protected or even favored, it's the opposite. It's like graffiti art, yeah, some of it is damn good, but the people that own the wall you sprayed have every right to remove it and possibly go after you for doing it in the first place.

>>31291332
>>31291352

nigga so did i

>>31291407
>They don't fall under any of the purpose categories (education, news, criticism)

Wouldn't fan art fall into that category? Along with every other piece of unofficial Pokemon content to exist that isn't Pokemon news, criticism or educating people while using Pokemon?

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>>31291352
Sure I did.

>>31291452
Yes actually. Most forms of fan content do not have legal fair use protection. But most companies do not find things like fan art, fan fiction, etc, to be particularly problematic for them and have positive benefits such as engaging the fanbase without the company having to do so themselves. But it's easy to see how a fan game of a video game could start to breach that feeling of harmlessness in the company's perspective.

>>31291215
I thought the middle picture was an ass at first.

>>31291577
Now draw the fish as Wishiwashi

>>31291595
Well Uranium IS ass.

>>31291386
You're the one who claimed they were stealing profit by not buying the games. Prove that.

Huh guess both points are based on no evidence. How odd.

>>31291673
I saw someone on twitter once saying that he won't buy Sun and Moon because of Prism. Check and mate.

>>31291695

And yet >>31291577 bought them anyway, proving >>31291286 wrong, check and mate.

>>31291835
You don't know that everyone is doing what these two people did.

>>31291695
>I saw someone but am not posting proof that this someone exists to make my point

Its illegal. Stop it right now.

OH LOOK GUISSE, POKEMON CLOVER STOLE DESIGNS AND IS COMPLED DESU.

>>31292965
You're right. Emailing Nintendo now so they'll know that Clover exists.

>>31291215
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtCwZFTNnz8&t=130s
In short, the Fangame must:

*Have no financial backing what so ever (no donations, no sale).
*Clarify that said Fangame IS A FANGAME and have nothing to do with the owners of the official products.
*Cannot be a Remake by any means.

AM2R, which cause this entire fangame panic, broke rule #3.
SMBZ broke Rule #1.
So far none of the Fangames broke rule #2, but that's a given since there's always a disclaimer in every single one of those things.

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>>31291215
>baiting this hard

I once played a romhack where you play as Goku. Shit was tight.

>>31294089
>lillieposting this hard

>>31294040
Did Uranium or Prism break that first rule?

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>sage
never ever

>>31294167
Uranium broke the first rule. Prism broke none of them.

>>31294040
You forgot:
*DON'T FUCKING ADVERTISE IT UNTIL IT'S FINISHED. This will ensure you avoid massive disappointment in the event of a DMCA.

>>31294167
Uranium broke rule 1
Prism broke rule 1 only through Twitch Plays Pokemon streaming the game and making money off that, otherwise it's all just a coverup for the third version to Sun and Moon which will also be called Pokemon Prism

>>31294215
doesn't count anyways.

the rules I listed is how to ensure that the Fangame isn't DMCA for marketing and profiteering purposes.

>>31294216
I'm not counting rule 1 because the dev team didn't make any money off of Prism. Only the person who streamed the game early made money and it was the lead dev that was contacted by Nintendo.

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>>31294183
Soon

>>31291215
You are legally required to submit a C&D before pursuing legal action. It's the "warning shot" of copyright law, basically.

>>31291215
Fuck off, Nintendo employee.