I would like to recall a major Pokémon scandle that happened about 7 years ago.
About 7 years ago or so, a group of Japanese kids, decided to make a game, two games actually. One called Pokémon Jade, the other caleld Pokémon Diamond. After they created it, they shared it amongst themselves, and among their other online friends. The game was made purely out of passion for Pokémon.
But, after they released both games, a group of Chinese people, took the game, and then started creating actual gameboy games out of them, and then proceded to sell them. They were distributed every, under the impression of real Pokémon games, and I even bought them thinking they were real Pokémon games. But clearly, when I started the game, I could tell it wasn't.
But, Nintendo later got word of two fake Pokémon games being sold everywhere, and proceded to take action. Which they did, they found the group of kids who created the game. But the group of kids did not sell the game, the group of Chinese people did.
So, Nintendo investigated, and found the group of people who sold, and distributed the game. And they sued them for copyright infringement. And everything was settled. But the part that everyone forgets is that the people who created the game, did not face any law, or copyright problems. At ALL.