Registered Community designs in the video game industry: a neglected yet potent tool

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Emmanuelle Sarlangue
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Property Right ◽  
Intellectual Property Right ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
Intellectual Property Strategy ◽  
Legal Uncertainty ◽  
The Eu

This article aims at demonstrating how and why registered Community designs should be integrated into the video game industry's intellectual property strategy. Although the validity of virtual designs has not yet been tested before courts, registered designs adequately address the issue of clone gaming faced by the industry. Some minor changes to the EU legal framework could contribute to balancing out the perceived legal uncertainty surrounding this intellectual property right.

Aren't we all exhausted already? EU copyright exhaustion and video game resales in the Games-as-a-Service era

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
Alina Trapova ◽  
Emanuele Fava
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Distribution Models ◽  
Consumer Law ◽  
National Courts ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Eu

This article examines the issue of copyright exhaustion for digitally distributed video games in the EU. In light of the case law of the CJEU and national courts, it applies to video games two relevant dichotomies – sale/licence and goods/services. Diving into the modern Games-as-a-Service (GaaS) trend, it argues that treating all transactions as sales and all games as goods poorly reflects the complexity of today's video game industry. The many uncertainties of the current legal framework and the impractical consequences of digital exhaustion could force the industry to change its distribution models in ways not necessarily beneficial to consumers. Thus, the applicability of exhaustion to digitally distributed games should be ruled out once and for all. Nonetheless, where copyright is unable to offer satisfactory solutions, consumer law may protect players vis-à-vis digital distribution platforms, while at the same time providing legal certainty to the industry.

Bluehole: Bluehole’s spectacular success in the video game industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-155
Author(s):  
Yongjin Oh ◽  
Seungchul Lee ◽  
Jaewon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Game Industry

scholarly journals Cross-country differences in innovative entrepreneurial activity

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (7) ◽  
pp. 1301-1329
Author(s):  
Ali Raza ◽  
Moreno Muffatto ◽  
Saadat Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Right ◽  
Intellectual Property Right ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Performance Orientation ◽  
Entrepreneurial Cognition ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Business Freedom

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationship between entrepreneurial cognition and innovative entrepreneurial activity (IEA) across countries using an institutional perspective. Design/methodology/approach The paper tests theoretical model using data collected by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness study and the Index of Economic Freedom (IEF). A multi-level analysis is performed based on set of 1,004,620 observations from 49 countries spanning 13 years (2001–2013). Findings The results suggest that in terms of formal regulations; the relationship between entrepreneurial cognitions and IEA becomes stronger when there is an increase in intellectual property right and business freedom regulations in a country. On the other hand, in terms of informal institutions the relationship between entrepreneurial cognitions and IEA becomes stronger when the level of institutional collectivism and uncertainty decreases and performance orientation increases. Originality/value The study indicates that entrepreneurship by innovation increases when the individuals possess high level of entrepreneurial cognition under suitable institutional conditions (e.g. intellectual property right, business freedom, institutional collectivism, uncertainty avoidance and performance orientation).

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