Prof. Dr. Christian Rauda on ZDF

Buying license keys for computer games from the original manufacturer is usually very expensive. Whether buying from resellers - who offer significantly lower prices - is legal is legally controversial. There is no supreme court case law on this. What is certain is that the sale of "used" application software is legal. This has been decided by the European Court of Justice. However, as computer games also have "multimedia elements", lawyers are arguing about whether games should be treated differently from software. Our opinion on this