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Palworld dev says a Dark Souls 3 mod invalidates Nintendo's Pokeball patent, Nintendo says mods don't count as real games, and an expert worries prior art precedents could see a modder's work "used against them": "Modders would become 'fair game' as their ideas could be patented by someone else"
"Modders would become 'fair game' as their ideas could be patented by someone else"
Mueller suggests that's an "extreme" position for the company to take, and "courts usually reject attempts to narrow the pool for prior art references in unreasonable ways." It'll ultimately be up to the court to decide whether Nintendo's argument is valid, but if the company gets its way, that could set a dangerous precedent for the modding community. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years.
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