What The Pokémon Company's Japanese terms of use say about fan-made content

What this is

What The Pokémon Company's Japanese terms of use say about fan-made content: TPC and related parties owe no payment or any other obligation for derivative content, and creators get no licence beyond personal use.

How it’s built

1. Read from the terms of use on TPC's official Japanese website, as of November 2026. The licence it takes is non-exclusive, sublicensable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and worldwide.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

It is the site's standard terms, not a contract with any named creator.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

当社及び関係者は、二次コンテンツに対して対価や報酬の支払いその他いかなる義務も負わないものとします。

In English

TPC and related parties owe no consideration, remuneration or any other obligation for derivative content. Same clause: no licence beyond personal use of Pokémon property is granted to the creator.