If you cannot pass on your ownership rights to your purchased games to your children, then you cannot pass on your copyright either, I guess?

  • geissi@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    You typically don’t get “ownership rights” when you purchase a game on Steam. You’ll typically be purchasing a licence to play the game, which could be taken away at any point.

    That is certainly what Valve thinks and writes in their TOS but if their store has a big button that says “BUY HALO” then courts may very well decide that you actually bought Halo.
    And many countries have a strict legal definition of what buying means that cannot be overruled by some company’s TOS.