Intangible Property: Protection of Virtual Property in Electronic Games in China and US

作     者：Hanyue Wang 

作者机构：Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of LawUS 

出 版 物：《Journal of Finance Research》 (财经研究杂志（英文）)

年 卷 期：2020年第4卷第2期

页      面：119-123页

学科分类：07[理学] 0701[理学-数学] 070101[理学-基础数学] 

主　　题：Virtual property Electronic game User license agreement Legislative solution Property law Copyright law 

摘      要：With blossoming of the electronic games,the strategy of game developer preference is that the player uses real money to buy the virtual property in the *** purpose for the strategy which keeping the game promote and developing the game system on the platform to attract more *** the increasing amount of game,the main strategy is *** chain,the End User License Agreement(EULA)which between the game developer and player is *** used to rule that the virtual property is belong to the game ***,for now,the virtual property has different acquisition way,“all virtual property belongs to the developersince already *** from the first virtual property lawsuit in China,this paper introduces the virtual property of electronic game and legal protection in US and ***,discussion the reasons to protection virtual property and provide proposals for a potential legislative solution in *** the end,this paper presents the reason that copyright law not suitable to protect the virtual property.