The Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) launches Digital Rights Group aimed to Educate the public about digital content distribution, license agreements, virtual property and piracy.digital content distribution, license agreements, virtual property and piracy.
"Know your rights... in their world and in ours."
As gamers, we love our games and support those companies who support our hobbies. We also understand that the world which supports games can be complex and difficult to understand. Behind-the-scenes legal issues like digital content distribution, license agreements, virtual property and video game piracy, …who can make sense of it all?! This group, Gamers for Digital Rights, strives to get the information out to consumers on the ins and outs of content protection: what exactly is intellectual property; what rights do creators and publishers have; and most importantly, what rights do we gamers have.
Games without players, or gamers without games, becomes a meaningless world unless all sides cooperate and play fair together. Digital rights for gamers must balance the publishers’ digital rights with those of the consumer. If you don’t know the rules when buying games or playing them with your friends, forget grinding or leveling up, you’ll lose the game in the real world.
Take control of your gaming rights by joining this group and becoming knowledgeable about your legal rights as a video game enthusiast and consumer. Get your clan members and friends involved. Send letters to your favorite publishers, praising them for the latest title in your favorite game franchise and letting them know what you think of digital rights.
Join Gamers for Digital Rights today. Know your rights…in their world, and in ours.
Take Action Now:
- Join the Gamers for Digital Rights Facebook Group
- Write the FTC about DRM and EULA's
- Tell your Friends
Resources:
Digital Rights Terms and Concepts-----
THE PETITION:
The FTC is holding hearings on the issue of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and End User Licensing Agreements (EULAs). The ECA respects the careful balance that must exist between the content community and the customer, and agree, that piracy is an ever-present challenge for the trade; it is also becoming evident that consumer rights are being diminished.
We acknowledge that these are weighty and topically-important issues, without easy solutions, and we are pleased to see the FTC providing a forum for thoughtful discussion of the matter. We wanted to give you, the consumer, an opportunity to express your opinions on DRM, which will be delivered to the FTC.
Read ECA President Hal Halpin's statement regarding the FTC Town Hall Meeting to address digital rights management technologies. We also encourage you to express your opinions on Twitter. Add #FTCDRM to your Tweets to join the protest.
SIGN THE PETITION HERE
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ECA Launches Digital Rights Group
[via GamePolitics]
The Gamers for Digital Rights web presence includes a glossary of terms and concepts, a Facebook Group and the ability to sign—and comment on—a DRM and End User Licensing Agreements (EULAs) petition to the FTC.
Jennifer Mercurio, ECA Vice President and General Counsel, added:
The importance of this issue is mounting, as we move from a packaged goods model, where we own what we buy, to a digitally-distributed model, where we may have a license for what we buy.As part of its drive into the issue, the ECA also announced the hiring of Robert L. (“Beau”) Hunter, IV as Digital Rights Consultant. Hunter joins the ECA after serving as Manager for IP Enforcement with the Entertainment Software Association (ESA).
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