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Giving Devs/Pubs a Cut on Used Games

[Mar 19, 2009, 10:19 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Online used games marketplace SwitchGames announces a new plan to give developers and publishers a cut of used games sold via their service. This could help redress some of the constant industry complaining about used game sales, though in an interesting twist, they are putting the decision about cutting in devs and pubs in the hands of the consumer:

“We want to tackle a fair concern head-on,” said SwitchGames founder and CEO Jason Crawford, “and I think we’ve arrived at a practical solution. Current annual used game sales of $2.4 billion are a goldmine for retailers. But neither game publishers nor developers can touch that revenue. SwitchGames is changing that. When gamers sell used titles on SwitchGames they’ll have the option to share a percentage of a used game sale with the people who actually made the game. Like everything else at SwitchGames, gamers are always in control and it’s up to them to decide whether they’d like to cut in developers and publishers.”

Today, SwitchGames also announced a developer contract provision available on its website. The contractual language entitles developers to a percentage of any proceeds paid to publishers by SwitchGames. SwitchGames encourages developers to copy and paste the text into their development contracts with publishers. Find the provision text at: http://www.switchgames.com/contract_provision.php

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Re: Giving Devs/Pubs a Cut on Used Games

Mar 19, 2009, 14:38

Deathhead

Not at all. You don't own songs just because you bought a CD or the sheet music to them - you can't just release them and make profit out of them because that breaches copyright. You can't just buy a book, scan it in and start producing thousands of copies. Copyright is simply the best way that society has found to compensate artists, which in turn benefits society - otherwise nobody would invest in producing content. The difference is you can sell your used music cd and your used books, you don't have to worry about the musician/author/publisher demanding you give them money cause they loss a sale.

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Comment [quote="Deathhead"Mar 19, 2009, 14:38]q[Not at all. You don't own songs just because you bought a CD or the sheet music to them - you can't just release them and make profit out of them because that breaches copyright. You can't just buy a book, scan it in and start producing thousands of copies. Copyright is simply the best way that society has found to compensate artists, which in turn benefits society - otherwise nobody would invest in producing content. ]q The difference is you can sell your used music cd and your used books, you don't have to worry about the musician/author/publisher demanding you give them money cause they loss a sale. [/quote]

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