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Re:The collapse of cryptokitties, the first big blockchain game by anotherman554 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @06:06PM (#32859057)
Unless the intellectual property assets (art and character designs) have been licensed putting them on a blockchain does not make them legal to use.
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Re:The collapse of cryptokitties, the first big blockchain game by Kiro on Friday September 16, 2022 @04:43AM (#32863720)
What do you mean? HyperDragons is just interacting with the CryptoKitties smart contract. They are not using any art or other IP from CryptoKitties.
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Re:The collapse of cryptokitties, the first big blockchain game by anotherman554 on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:51AM (#32897657)
So cyptokitties are not cartoon characters like Pokemon?

All I'm saying is, if Nintendo made a Pokemon NFT, another company such as Ubisoft would not be able to add Pikachu to their blockchain based game without an intellectual property license by Nintendo. This would seemingly make a Pokemon NFT rather pointless.

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Re:The collapse of cryptokitties, the first big blockchain game by Kiro on Saturday September 24, 2022 @07:54AM (#32961669)
I would still be able to build applications utilizing the Pokemon NFT, and use it in my game, without infringing on the copyright. The NFT itself is just an ID with some meta data and doesn't contain any IP. The IP is in Nintendo's own front-end for the NFT.
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