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Small, in-game purchases that allow players to access additional content or features. The ethics and legality of these transactions, especially in relation to children, are frequently discussed.

The movement toward making games playable by people with a wide range of abilities. Legal requirements for accessibility are becoming more prevalent and influence game design.

The act of altering a game's content or behavior. Legal issues can arise when mods infringe on copyright or are monetized without permission from the original game creators.

Regulatory systems like the ESRB provide age ratings and content warnings for games, informing players and parents about the nature of a game's content.

A digital container in games that can be purchased with real-world money or earned in-game, containing random items. The legality of loot boxes is often debated, regarding whether they constitute gambling.

Contracts that allow users to use the software under certain conditions, and define usage rights, intellectual property issues, and redistribution policies.

Business information that has independent economic value from not being generally known and is subject to reasonable efforts to maintain its secrecy. Includes game coding, proprietary technology, and design secrets.

The legal rights that game developers and publishers hold over their game's content, including characters, music, and gameplay mechanics. Protecting IP is vital for the profitability and creative control within the gaming industry.

The unauthorized reproduction and/or distribution of video game software. It negatively impacts the gaming industry's revenue and leads to legal disputes and enforcement actions.

Legal concerns arise when streamers broadcast copyrighted game content. Developers can issue takedowns or grant licenses to use game content, affecting the streaming indusrty.

Laws that regulate the operation and advertising of online gambling, which sometimes intersect with gaming laws due to the similarity between some in-game features and gambling.

Legal action taken by a group of consumers against a gaming company for issues such as misleading advertising, defective hardware, or other collective grievances.

A legal principle that allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research.

A legal concept that allows the purchaser of a game to resell the physical copy. The applicability of this doctrine to digital game licenses is a complex legal issue.

A legal contract between the software developer and the user which outlines the rights and restrictions applied to the use of the game. Violating a EULA can result in being barred from a game.

A U.S. law that includes provisions to criminalize the circumvention of copyright protections and regulate digital copyrights. This has implications for gaming through modding, piracy, and streaming.

Legal agreements governing the relationship between professional players and their teams or sponsors, covering salaries, sponsorships, and term length among other elements.

Legislation such as GDPR affects how gaming companies collect, use, and protect players' personal data, and the penalties for breaching these data protection regulations.

Technological measures designed to prevent cheating in online games. Legal issues can arise from their implementation, privacy concerns, and enforcement.