The Pokémon Company International sued Beckett Media, known for Beckett Unofficial Pokémon Collector, for upwards to $75,000 for publishing unauthorized scans of trading cards from several recent sets and using graphics in order to gain a profit through commissions.

Former PokéZam (previous location of Crystal Islands) owner, Alakazam (Sean Cooper), is an editor for Beckett Unofficial Pokémon Collector.

Sources:
Courthouse News
Bulbapedia: TPCi files lawsuit against popular magazine publisher

Ouch, 75,000 dollars. o.o

I subscribe to the magazine and I find this dissapointing, but at least we have Bulbanews for the "Real life Pokemon" article, under the name "On the Origins of Pokemon" (so far, none of the Pokemon origins Beckett reviewed are ones that Bulbanews reviewed, but most of us know about Ninetales origins anyways) , and we have Serebii for getting the latest news from Japan, for the cards, there is okebeach and various TCG forums

I mean seriously, first, Viacom sues Youtube over copyrighted content, then various Manga Publishers take down Mangafox for the same reason, now THIS, sheesh, this year has been filled with copyright nazis suing the crap out of everything, what's next, Family Guy getting sued for the pop-culture it has referenced or parodied (free-domain my butt!)!?

Oh ****! I immediately thought of Sean (and I talk with him often there) when I saw the headline of this story. I suspect his job is done there.

Yech... That's a helluva fine.

I wonder how many times he's gonna have to hit The Elite Four to bring up that kinda cash...

copyright has gotten too ugly nowadays, an evil that is necessary and shouldn't be highly enforced, if that person claims that property as their own that isn't legally theirs, they are committing fraud, which is a felony here in the USA.

Quite expected from a large company.

I do not mean to change the subject, but do you remember the So Bad It's Good Megaman cartoon from Ruby Spears, do you know why it was cancelled, not because of low ratings as most people believe, but because of copyright nazis, while RS did have the rights from Capcom.... OF JAPAN THAT IS, Capcom of America wouldn't let it fly, this is because in Japan, Megaman is called "Rockman", and since Capcom of America owns all rights to the name "Megaman", the show was canned, AND RIGHT BEFORE THE THIRD SEASON COULD AIR AT THAT. This is one of the reasons why copyright nazis are such butts

Either way, by the looks of it, the third season would have been a little less corny and introduce a story arc, in it, Protoman would switch sides, and all the Robot Masters that did not appear in the series would appear, including all eight of the recently released at the time Megaman 6 Robot Masters

This is just ONE of the many things copyright nazis have done to popular franchises like this one, and apparently, Pokemon has now fallen victim to it as well.....

this whole month has been full of copyright crap

First NCS, Chuggaa, others get suspended for false copyright claims and now this?

Wow, a $75,000 fine is quite a lot.

Anyone remember when the 2nd gen was brand new, those really horrible pictures they had of them that appeared in like every issue? They were funny.

Too bad I don't know what the heck BM is.