Playing by the Rules: Exploring the Challenges to Copyright Protection faced by Video Game Publishers
The intellectual property regime within the European Union is one which has a rich and lengthy history, encompassing a wealth of forms of expression. The harmonisation of copyright can be dated to the creation of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of 1886. Video games, in comparison, only joined the cultural zeitgeist in the mid-20th century. In the pursuing yea