What this is
How a US filing described The Pokémon Company: set up in 1998 by Nintendo, Creatures and Game Freak to manage all Pokémon rights worldwide; 4Kids bought 3% in 2001.
How it’s built
- Read from 4Kids Entertainment's annual report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission for 2002, which describes the company it had bought a 3% stake in.
What we assumed
- 'Manage and control all rights' describes a mandate to act for the owners, not an outright transfer of the rights.The wording speaks of managing rights, not owning them, and registries elsewhere still show the three founders or Nintendo as owners.
Sanity check
This is 4Kids' description of a company it part-owned, not The Pokémon Company's own articles. The $726k is 4Kids' cost, not a valuation of the whole company.
Where it comes from
4Kids Entertainment, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. / SEC EDGAR · March 2003 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
a closely held Japanese company, which was organized in 1998 by Nintendo Co. Ltd, Creatures, Inc. and Game Freak, Inc., the creators of "Pokemon", to manage and control all rights to "Pokemon" throughout the world.
Where it’s used
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