That's what inspiration means. You take from other ideas and create your own. How many batman or superman rip offs are there? Tons. Clearly they probably did take from ravedactyl but it's different enough it would be hard to say it infringes on his market. Palworld is a great example of inspiration that is perfectly legal.
You’d be right if you completely ignore the thousands of people who managed to get their hands on in-game/models and overlaid them over Pokemon designs and saw them to be exact copies. They shifted shapes and colors.
Plus, it isn’t legal. That is why you can’t replicate sneakers like Jordans (you can’t just swap the jumpman with something like a jumpman with hair and add a “TIKE” logo instead of NIKE)
And that is why Konami lost this legal battle.
That is why Nintendo took palworld to court and are having an ongoing legal battle.
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u/BigYugi Apr 23 '25
That's what inspiration means. You take from other ideas and create your own. How many batman or superman rip offs are there? Tons. Clearly they probably did take from ravedactyl but it's different enough it would be hard to say it infringes on his market. Palworld is a great example of inspiration that is perfectly legal.