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Dr hab. Paweł Podrecki
ORCID: 0000-0002-1865-3689

Dr hab. Paweł Podrecki, prof. INP PAN

Professor at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Head of the New Technologies Law Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the Postgraduate Studies "New Technologies Law". Lecturer at the Jagiellonian University, the Polish Academy of Sciences, the School of German Law of the Jagiellonian University and the University of Vienna. A scholarship holder at the Max- Planck-Institut für Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht in Munich and at the Universities of Berlin and Vienna. He is the author of numerous publications on intellectual property and competition law and European law issues. Attorney at law, Senior Partner and co-founder of Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners.

 
Disposing of digital keys for video games with special focus to the legal aspects of copyright exhaustion, s. 12-24
DOI: 10.33226/0137-5490.2021.2.2
JEL: K24
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Disposing of digital keys for video games with special focus to the legal aspects of copyright exhaustion

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