Introduction
Super Mario Brothers, Road Rash,
Tekken, FIFA Soccer Games and other videogames
have been and are still being played by a majority of people with
age being no bar. Videogames, which in the face, are seen as the
best playmates, contain within them various facets and elements of
Intellectual Property Rights (IP). When looked from an IP
perspective, each videogame consists of various segments which are
laced with distinct expressions of ideas, which unless protected
may be susceptible to infringement by another. Gamuts of IPR
covering the realm of videogames are discussed below:
Copyright– The Berne Convention, for Protection of
Literary and Artistic Works, is an international agreement
governing copyright. Article 2 under the same, manifests
"literary and artistic works" affording protection to
videogames through Copyright. But the moment a game is made public,
nothing under the copyright laws can prevent it from another
individual developing a game
