Legal Issues? There's an app for that: Difference between revisions

tagline=Thoughts on TPCi's takedown of mobile apps |

blurb=The Pokémon Company has moved to have Pokémon related apps of all types removed from the Android market, resulting in a backlash from certain segments of the fandom against Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. A good amount of this backlash appears to be based on the attitude that there is a double standard between how apps and fansites are treated. Things aren't quite so clear cut however, and there's a number of underlying issues that need to be considered. }}

''The following editorial is based largely on the contents of email exchanges between Archaic, Nolan Lawson (the developer of PokéDroid), and Tim Oliver (the developer of iPokédex). Much of this was originally written back when PokéDroid was taken down, though we ended up not posting it because of how long it took me to finish. Now that there's been further developments, with iPokédex having received a notification of an IP claim against them by The Pokémon Company International, we feel that the time is right to get some of these thoughts up and out to the wider fandom.''