{"id":3611,"date":"2024-04-05T08:53:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T08:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aitesonics.com\/valve-fails-to-get-out-of-paying-its-eu-geo-blocking-fine-122053595\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T08:53:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T08:53:23","slug":"valve-fails-to-get-out-of-paying-its-eu-geo-blocking-fine-122053595","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aitesonics.com\/valve-fails-to-get-out-of-paying-its-eu-geo-blocking-fine-122053595\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve fails to get out of paying its EU geo-blocking fine"},"content":{"rendered":"
Valve has failed to convince a court that it didn't infringe EU law by geo-blocking activation keys,<\/a> according to a new ruling<\/a>. The company argued that, based on copyright law, publishers had the right to charge different prices for games in different countries. However, the EU General Court confirmed that its geo-blocking actions "infringed EU competition law"and that copyright law didn't apply.<\/p>\n "Copyright is intended only to ensure for the right holders concerned protection of the right to exploit commercially the marketing or the making available of the protected subject matter, by the grant of licences in return for payment of remuneration," it wrote in a statement. "However, it does not guarantee them the opportunity to demand the highest possible remuneration or to engage in conduct such as to lead to artificial price differences between the partitioned national markets."<\/p>\n