News Summary

• Sergio Ferreira, an intellectual property lawyer at the UK law firm Knights, shares his thoughts on the ongoing Stop Killing Games petition.
• Proposals for change must reflect the realities of IP law, contract obligations, and server infrastructure, he says.
• In the UK, consumers don't 'own' most games in the way they might think.
• Most digital games are licensed under an End User Licence Agreement (EULA), which limits the scope of what users can do with the product.
• This is a licence to use a digital service, not a transfer of IP ownership.