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Former Pokémon lawyer thanks media for highlighting projects for the company to take down


The Pokémon Company's chatty former legal boss has thanked the media for publicising projects the company may then be c…

Speaking to Aftermath, McGowan was asked how the famously litigious Pokémon Company discovered and prioritised the many fan projects that may exist at any one time. Watch on YouTube But, as McGowan continued, the existence of a fan project did not automatically mean a serious-looking letter from Pokémon's legal team. His role also entailed managing event security and the brand's customer service team ("mostly because I was the department of Things That Can Go Wrong"), meeting with global privacy regulators, and inspecting manufacturing facilities (to make "sure there was no child labour in there, etc.

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