The Pokémon Company, which manages everything surrounding the Pokemon franchise, has decided to take the bull by the horns to prevent a crypto company from Australia from going too far with an NFT project.
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The target is Kotiota Studios, which also calls itself Pokémon Pty Ltd. This company recently opened a website for a new NFT mobile game project, while claiming to have worked on official titles like Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, for example.
The description on the website showsin addition, that it is not subtle at all their project: it is modeled, for the most part, on what is already done in the Pokemon universe.
PokeWorld is a metaverse P2E game filled with fascinating Pokemon that players can collect as pets. Have fun raising your Pokémon by feeding and evolving them, or watch them compete once morest others in exciting battles!
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This metaverse features a player-owned economy, where players can actually own, buy, sell, and trade in-game resources earned through skilled gameplay and ecosystem contributions.
It is not for nothing that a lawsuit to enforce copyright is registered, since it is very easy to confuse the Kotiota Studios project with what The Pokémon Company has been doing for 25 years.
It is all the more important, for Nintendo and The Pokémon Company, to see to this given that in front of the Australian justice, they also want to assert that they never intended to launch into the market. NFTs to boost the popularity of Pokémon.
It remains to be seen, now, if these legal provisions will take time to lead to a result…
