How it’s built
- Read from the complaint in The Pokémon Company International v. Jones and others, filed August 2015 in the federal court in western Washington.
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
This is the plaintiff's own claim in a complaint, about its US copyright registrations. It does not mention Nintendo, Creatures or Game Freak, unlike Japanese notices naming four co-owners.
Where it comes from
TPCi v. Jones, Shore, Ruckus Productions complaint, W.D. Wash. 2:15-cv-01372 US District Court W.D. Wash. (DocumentCloud) · 26 August 2015 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
TPCi is the sole owner of copyright in the Pokémon Works, as noted on the corresponding Certificates of Registration.