Ireland: Copyright

When Ubisoft shut down servers for its 2014 racing game The Crew, players lost access to content they had purchased. This sparked a European Citizens' Initiative gathering 1.3 million signatures demanding publishers keep games playable after commercial support ends. The European Commission's response and its implications for digital content sellers across all sectors reveal critical obligations under existing EU consumer protection law.

As the 2024 Paris Olympic Games come to a close and the excitement builds for the Paralympic Games, light has been shone on the intellectual property issues that surround sports.

The Government has signed a statutory instrument transposing the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market into Irish law.