IP Rights White Paper

The IP Rights White Paper is a comprehensive analysis of key forms of IPR, legal definitions and information about global intellectual property rights as they relate to games and those connected to game development.

Topics covered in the White Paper include the history of IP Rights; forms of IP protection; overview of IP in video games; practical applications; and three opinion essays from leading game industry thinkers.

Written by the IP Rights Special Interest Group (previously the IPR Committee), consisting of forty members including game developers, musicians, journalists, CTOs, CEOs, open-source evangelists, students, academics and lawyers from North America , Europe and Asia.

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