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Mgr Michał Matysiak
ORCID: 0000-0002-8755-2283

Mgr Michał Matysiak

A doctoral student and assistant at the Department of Private Law of the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Author of publications on intellectual property law and modern technologies. Attorney trainee at the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Warsaw. A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University and the School of American Law organised by the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington.

 
DOI: 10.33226/0137-5490.2021.2.2
JEL: K24

The issue of copyright exhaustion has repeatedly been directly or indirectly the subject of the jurisprudence of national courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Due to changes in the digital markets, the purpose of this article is to make a legal assessment of the disposability of digital keys for computer games, taking into account, in particular, the issue of copyright exhaustion and posing the question of whether it requires a change of legal approach. The article also touches upon legal issues concerning antitrust regulations, geoblocking, and liability of digital distribution platforms.

Keywords: digital keys; UsedSoft; computer games; video games; copyright exhaustion; digital distribution platforms