A little over a year ago we discussed YouTuber Ross Scott’s attempt to build political action around video game preservation. Scott started a campaign and site called Stop Killing Games when …
This campaign is not asking to take away IP from devs or publishers, they would still retain it.
Legally speaking, a game sold for a single payment and without clear stipulation of an end of service would be considered a Good under EU law. Tjis means you’re purchasing a perpetual license to your specific copy of the game, but not to the IP or copyright.
Ross, the creator of the SKG campaign, goes into extreme detail on this very topic of goods vs services, and how the game industry is committing fraud by destroying a customer’s ability to access the content their perpetual license allows.
The equivalent for other media would be that if I buy a digital copy of a film or something, I should always be able to access it in the same resolution and whatnot that I purchased it. That’s outside the scope of this campaign, but this campaign would certainly pave the way for it.
This campaign is not asking to take away IP from devs or publishers, they would still retain it.
Legally speaking, a game sold for a single payment and without clear stipulation of an end of service would be considered a Good under EU law. Tjis means you’re purchasing a perpetual license to your specific copy of the game, but not to the IP or copyright.
Ross, the creator of the SKG campaign, goes into extreme detail on this very topic of goods vs services, and how the game industry is committing fraud by destroying a customer’s ability to access the content their perpetual license allows.
The equivalent for other media would be that if I buy a digital copy of a film or something, I should always be able to access it in the same resolution and whatnot that I purchased it. That’s outside the scope of this campaign, but this campaign would certainly pave the way for it.