I'm actually fine with the C&D letter, I think. I mean, I don't see the harm but it is their IP and they can manage it how they like. However, demanding the money is just silly and ridiculous. Simply asking her to stop should be enough.
Yeah yeah, this would sell with any another desing, totally not related to the bulbassaur shape at all.
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Misleading title is misleading. Pokemon Co. International sent the C&D, not Ninty.
And no, Pokemon Co. isn't a part of Nintendo, only an affiliate, so Pokemon Co. can make some independent decisions (like the Pokemon TCG game on the iPad, for example).
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| lord_of_flood said: Misleading title is misleading. Pokemon Co. International sent the C&D, not Ninty. And no, Pokemon Co. isn't a part of Nintendo, only an affiliate, so Pokemon Co. can make some independent decisions (like the Pokemon TCG game on the iPad, for example). |
The Pokemon Company was founded by Nintendo as a brand management company for Pokemon. It's still a subsidiary of Nintendo despite being able to make independent decisions.
OT: I suppose its within their rights to send a C&D letter, though I don't really see TPC selling Pokemon-themed planters of their own. xD
The entire article, including the misleading title, are copied from one site ... which in turn had copied the article almost verbatim from another.
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Are they really demandng money? Seems like kinda silly to me! 
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I also think people are missing that it appears Shapeways was selling ceramic models of these.
So they basically were selling unauthorized Pokemon merchandise.
As such, seeking monetary compensation is not unusual. Sports leagues do that with counterfeiters all the time.
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| AZWification said: Are they really demandng money? Seems like kinda silly to me! |
They're demanding any profits made off the design on that website, which is understandable and perfectly reasonable.
Didn't the Pokemon Company do this and not Nintendo?
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| mike_intellivision said: I also think people are missing that it appears Shapeways was selling ceramic models of these. So they basically were selling unauthorized Pokemon merchandise. As such, seeking monetary compensation is not unusual. Sports leagues do that with counterfeiters all the time. |
You're right, they were, so Nintendo and The Pokémon Company were absolutely right to do this.
Also, the overall tone of the article could do with some less obvious bias against Nintendo. Pretty nasty.
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