PROPRIEDADE DOS BENS DIGITAIS ADQUIRIDOS NO JOGO COUNTER STRIKE: GLOBAL OFFENSIVE

Abstract

The present study has the general objective of investigating the ownership of digital goods acquired by players in the game Counter Strike: Global Offensive. To this end, through bibliographical, legislative and jurisprudential research, what video games are, the types of online games and what digital goods are will be defined. For the research, it was necessary to use the perspective of copyright on the topic of ownership of digital goods, as it is the legal branch that regulates video games in Brazil. From the perspective of copyright, video games are regulated both by law nº 9,610/98 (copyright law), in the creation phases, and by law nº 9,609/98 (computer program law), when the video game is already developed. Thus, those who participated in the project to create a video game have the moral right to what they contributed, while the developer holds the patrimonial right, being for all purposes the owner of the game, as a computer program. Finally, the game Counter Strike: Global Offensive was approached by analyzing the usage license agreement made available by the game's developer, Valve, concluding that the property belongs to the developer, with users being mere enjoyers of the digital goods, as game players. game.