Nintendo has taken down another popular fan project based on one of its game franchises.

The project in question was PokeNational Geographic, a series of fan animated short videos made in the style of a nature documentary, imagining how Pokemon might live in the wild if they actually existed. The series was widely popular on Youtube, and it seems that this eventually drew the ire of Nintendo Of America, who filed a copyright strike against the channel and took it down.

This news was shared in an update from series creator Elios, who had to post it to a separate channel as he had lost access to the original PokeNational Geographic channel. In the video, Elios says that he received “far more” than the 3 copyright strikes needed for a channel to be taken down, and that he was unable to remove the offending videos in order to keep the channel.

Elios goes on to elaborate that the copyright strikes were on the ground of using “works, characters, and imagery” owned by Nintendo. However, all the assets except for the Pokemon cries were created by Elios himself, meaning that they should technically fall under fair use in the US. However, as a smaller creator, Elios likely does not have the resources needed to fight for this in court, and has instead decided to put an end to the series.

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