<![CDATA[Publications]]> en-gb Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:30:10 +0000 <![CDATA[Tax incentives for video game creation. Compatibility with EU law]]> http://www.georgievalawoffice.eu/en/publications/публикации/tax-incentives-for-video-game-creation-compatibility-with-eu-law This article investigates the legal framework that is applied when tax credit is implemented as a financial mechanism for supporting developers and publishers of video games with cultural content. The article also examines the compatibility of this type of financial support with the EU law, mainly with the EU Treaty rules on state aid, and provides an overview of the two investigations undertaken by the European Commission, regarding the notifications made by France and the United Kingdom on tax credit granting for video games creation.

You can read the whole article by attorney Hristina Georgieva, PhD here: https://gramada.org/%d0%b4%d0%b0%d0%bd%d1%8a%d1%87%d0%bd%d0%b8-%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b8%d0%bc%d1%83%d0%bb%d0%b8-%d0%b7%d0%b0-%d1%81%d1%8a%d0%b7%d0%b4%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%b5-%d0%b2%d0%b8%d0%b4%d0%b5%d0%be%d0%b8%d0%b3/

]]> http://www.georgievalawoffice.eu/en/publications/публикации/tax-incentives-for-video-game-creation-compatibility-with-eu-law Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:30:10 +0000 <![CDATA[Legal protection of video and electronic games as intellectual property objects]]> http://www.georgievalawoffice.eu/en/publications/публикации/legal-protection-of-video-and-electronic-games-as-intellectual-property-objects "Legal Protection of Video and Electronic Games as Objects of Intellectual Property" is the first comprehensive monographic study in Bulgaria devoted to the copyright protection of video games as a non-traditional object of intellectual property law. The work traces the legal approaches adopted in different legal systems in relation to video games, including at the European Union (EU) level. Legislative and doctrinal views on the subject are examined, as well as enforcement issues. The case law of the ECJ, the US Supreme Court, Italian, French and other national courts is analysed. Video games are compared with similar works, such as: composite works within the meaning of Articles 10 and 11 of the RIPA, computer programs and audiovisual works. The content of the copyright in a video game is clarified as the aggregate of specific moral and proprietary rights of the author, respectively the copyright owner. The work also contributes to the theoretical clarification of issues related to the applicability to video games of related copyright rights and other industrial property rights: trademark rights, industrial designs, patents, utility models, topology of integrated circuits and others, through which it is possible to achieve an even broader scope of legal protection. Without becoming an independent problem of the study, for the first time in Bulgaria the issue of tax and other financial incentives for the support and development of the video game industry in Bulgaria is addressed and analyzed in detail. 

You can order the book "Legal Protection of Video and Electronic Games as Objects of Intellectual Property" here.

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