Well, this is certainly moving fast. We had begun talking about the recently released PC game Palworld as a great example of the idea/expression dichotomy in copyright law, specifically as the game has both been described as "Pokémon, but with guns" while also not containing any specific Pokémon copyrighted expression within it. While the Pokémon…
Toasted Shoes got a DMCA notice after uploading a trailer of Palworld to Pokemon mod on Twitter and came back with “Legally-Distinct Pocket Creatures.”
Well, this is a twisted story - literally in a snake kind of way. There's a new episode of 48 Hours that recently devoted an episode to the murder of a Missouri snake breeder. Spoiler alert: he wasn't killed by snakes.