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You probably don’t want your Pokémon fan project getting too much press coverage.

Given how litigious Nintendo is, the company’s reluctance to go after Palworld has raised a lot of questions about what might actually spur The Pokémon Company to claim of IP infringement.

Sales numbers and visual similarities are obviously part of the equation. But according to TPC’s former Chief Legal Officer Don McGowan, one of other big factors that plays into how fanmade projects wind up on Nintendo’s radar entertainment press coverage.

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