The US government can legally steal Pikachu. It's wild. Nintendo, the most litigious IP holder on earth, can do nothing. Japan is reduced to having its diplomats say please to our diplomats. The reason is a 1960 law, 28 U.S.C. § 1498(b). When the federal government infringes a copyright, courts cannot issue an injunction. The government can keep posting while the case runs, then settle the bill at roughly the license fee it never asked to pay. The law converts infringement into an…