What this is
The licence that people who make fan works from Pokémon grant to The Pokémon Company under its Japanese terms of use: non-exclusive, sublicensable, free, perpetual, irrevocable and worldwide.
How it’s built
- Read from the terms of use on the official Japanese Pokémon website, which say creators “grant a non-exclusive, sublicensable, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable worldwide licence”.
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
The terms give the company the right to reuse fan creations without paying; they do not show how often it does so.
The value
- non-exclusive, sublicensable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide
Where it comes from
Japanese-language article The Pokémon Company · undated (live page, fetched 1 November 2026) Open the original ↗
The line in the source
非独占的、サブライセンス可能、無償、無期限かつ取消不能な全世界を対象とするライセンスを許諾するものとします。