🎮 Video Game Ownership: A Legal Issue for Players and Publishers 🎮
The opening of Gamescom is an opportunity to focus on the video game industry.
I had the pleasure of speaking with Pierre Trouvé about the legal issues surrounding video game ownership in connection with his article about the players’ fight against the shutdown of the servers for Ubisoft’s game “The Crew.”
The Le Monde article presents a European petition aimed at ending the destruction of video games, “Stop Destroying Videogames,” launched on July 31st by a group of players as part of a European citizens’ initiative.
Video games and ownership: a growing conflict between players and publishers
This initiative raises essential questions about the legal issues surrounding video game ownership: the “purchase” of a video game now seems to be a misnomer, as it is less about perpetual ownership of the game and more about a license to use it under the control of the video game studios.
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