Video game publishing

This industry category includes the following:

58.21 Publishing of computer games

This class includes:

- publishing of computer games for all platforms

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Industry Sectors

Advertising (9) Architectural (8) Computer consultancy (10) Computer programming (23) Creative, arts and entertainment (196) Cultural education (71) Film and motion pictures (258) Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities (64) PR and communication (9) Photographic activities (54) Programming and broadcasting (47) Publishing of books, periodicals and other publishing (253) Software publishing (217) Sound recording and music publishing (400) Specialised design (19) Television programmes (146) Translation and interpretation (5) Video game publishing (15)

Video game publishing is an industry sector defined within the Copyright Evidence wiki.

The following studies involve this industry sector (15):

	Citation
Banks and Humphreys (2008)	Banks, J., & Humphreys, S. (2008). The Labour of User Co-Creators Emergent Social Network Markets?. Convergence: the International Journal of research into New Media technologies, 14(4), 401-418.
Fietkiewicz (2020)	Fietkiewicz K.J. (2020) The Law of Live Streaming: A Systematic Literature Review and Analysis of German Legal Framework. In: Meiselwitz G. (eds) Social Computing and Social Media. Design, Ethics, User Behavior, and Social Network Analysis. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12194. Springer, Cham. pp. 227-242
Fukugawa (2011)	Fukugawa, N. (2011). How Serious is Piracy in the Videogame Industry?. Empirical Economics Letters, 10(3), 225-233.
Humphreys, Fitzgerald, Banks, Suzor (2008)	Humphreys, S., Fitzgerald, B., Banks, J. and Suzor, N., 2005. Fan-based production for computer games: User-led innovation, the ‘Drift of Value’and intellectual property rights. Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, 114(1), pp.16-29.
Intellectual Property Office, Kantar Media (2016)	IPO. (2016). Online Copyright Infringement Tracker – Latest wave of research Mar 16 – May 16. Overview and Key Findings.
Jankowich (2006)	Jankowich, A. (2006) EULAw: The Complex Web of Corporate Rule-Making in Virtual Worlds. Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, 8
Kartas and Goode (2012)	Kartas, A and Goode, S (2012) Use, perceived deterrence and the role of software piracy in video game console adoption. Information Systems Frontiers, Volume 14(2), pp 261 - 277
Katzenbach, Herweg and Van Roessel (2016)	Katzenbach, C., Herweg, S. and Van Roessel, L. Copies, Clones, and Genre Building: Discourses on Imitation and Innovation in Digital Games. International Journal of Communication 10 (2016), 838-859
Lastowka (2011)	Lastowka, Greg, Minecraft as Web 2.0: Amateur Creativity & Digital Games (October 5, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1939241 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1939241
Phau and Liang (2012)	Phau, I., & Liang, J. (2012). Downloading digital video games: predictors, moderators and consequences. Marketing Intelligence & Planning, 30(7), 740-756.
Poor (2012)	Poor, N. (2012) When Firms Encourage Copying: Cultural Borrowing as Standard Practice in Game Spaces. International Journal of Communication 6, 689–709
Rietveld (2015)	Rietveld, Joost. Value Creation from Complements in Platform Markets: Studies on the Video Game Industry. Diss. City University London, 2015.
Roquilly (2011)	Roquily, C. (2011) Control Over Virtual Worlds by Game Companies: Issues and Recommendations. MIS Quarterly, 35(3)
Shankar and Bayus (2002)	Shankar, V., & Bayus, B. L. (2003). Network effects and competition: An empirical analysis of the home video game industry. Strategic Management Journal, 24(4), 375-384.
Van Roessel and Katzenbach (2018)	van Roessel, L. And Katzenbach, C. (2018) Navigating the grey area: Game production between inspiration and imitation. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media and Technologies.