Please note that many other asshole things would still be very bad and asshole-ish, even if there were no copyright laws. For example, if I printed Pokémon Trading Cards and claimed that the Pokémon Company printed them, it would definitely be fraud and deception.
This is an interesting case, because the Pokémon Company purposely entangles the Copyright and Trademark of it’s product. For a market to work even in a no-copyright world, you do still need some trademark protections; for example, if you sell 3rd party Pokémon cards, it would have to be explicit that they are not Pokémon Company cards.
This is an interesting case, because the Pokémon Company purposely entangles the Copyright and Trademark of it’s product. For a market to work even in a no-copyright world, you do still need some trademark protections; for example, if you sell 3rd party Pokémon cards, it would have to be explicit that they are not Pokémon Company cards.