Pre-Owned Games

Created in October 01, 2013

2013 · papers games copyright

The market in second-hand or pre-owned games is made possible by provisions in copyright law that allow the purchasers of copyrighted works to give or sell their copy to others. Pre-owned games are a contentious issue for game developers and publishers who see them as damaging to the sales and revenue generated by new games.

A PDF of this paper (Douglas, 2013) is available here: pre-owned_games.pdf

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2013

Pre-Owned Games

David M. Douglas

Oct 2013

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The market in second-hand or pre-owned games is made possible by provisions in copyright law that allow purchasers of copyrighted works to give or sell their copy to others. Pre-owned games are a contentious issue for game developers and publishers who see them as damaging to the sales and revenue generated by new games.