One of the supposed justifications for the intellectual monopoly called copyright is that it drives creativity and culture. In the last few weeks alone we have had multiple demonstrations of why the opposite is true: copyright destroys culture, and not by accident, but wilfully. For example, the MTVNews.com site, along with its sister site CMT.com, …
That Fortnite case reached a settlement out of court (like most cases do).
Also Japanese copyright law is much more strict and tightly enforced than it is in the states.