Some Issues of the Legal Regime and the Protection of PC-Game Broadcasts
https://doi.org/10.19073/2658-7602-2020-17-1-43-50
Abstract
The paper discusses the features of the legal regime of gaming broadcasts posted on the Internet. The assessment of the main approaches of domestic and foreign theory and practice to the definition of the legal regime of the game is given. The Author investigates the possibility of classifying game broadcasts as derivative works, as well as in the absence of features of a derivative work, as a public display or public performance of the work. The article presents the classification and forms of game broadcasts. In the paper the study of the theory and practice of Russia, the United States and European Union is concluded. Reviewed the relevant exclusions of above-mentioned legal systems that allow the posting of game broadcasts on the Internet. The conclusion is made about the need for improving legislation in the field of gaming broadcasts.
About the Author
A. Yu. Churilov
National Research Tomsk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Churilov Aleksei Yu.. Analytic at scientific educational center “Intellectual Property and Intellectual Rights” of Law Institute, Candidate of Legal Sciences.
35 Lenina pr., Tomsk, 634050
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Churilov A.Yu. Some Issues of the Legal Regime and the Protection of PC-Game Broadcasts. Siberian Law Review. 2020;17(1):43-50. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.19073/2658-7602-2020-17-1-43-50
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