Over the years, the video game industry has grown into one of the largest, most profitable entertainment industries in the world with a global market that is expected to reach about $82 billion in 2017, from an estimated volume of $67 billion in 2012, according to Forbes. Fooling the user? Modding in the video game industry. Keywords: Innovation, Game development, User-generated content, Modding, Copyright, Intellectual property, Video games, Games Citation:
Received: Reviewed: JPublished: JLicence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany Competing interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist that have influenced the text. By means of a literature review this article seeks to investigate the ongoing juridification of the relationship between modders and the industry, in order to provide a brief insight into the complex issue of intellectual property in relation to user generated content and the tensions that arise due to a mesh of messy legal and social arrangements. While modders are becoming increasingly aware of the financial weight of their activities, game companies seek to secure the legal ownership of the content they create. It does not come as a surprise then, that user-driven innovation, or 'modding', has come to play a considerably important role for the industry in recent years. In a highly competitive industry, legal difficulties to safeguard successful game concepts from copycats contribute to a trend of risk aversion and reliance on established game franchises.
Over the years, the video game industry has grown into one of the largest, most profitable entertainment industries in the world.
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