Games & Commerce
Dark and Darker Supreme Court ruling nears; focus on scope of protecting game development outputs
South Korea\'s game industry is watching a Supreme Court ruling due on April 30 in the dispute between Nexon and Ironmace over \"Dark and Darker\". The industry focus is on how far courts recognise non-public development outputs accumulated during development and how they separate copyright from trade secrets. Lower courts rejected copyright infringement but upheld trade secret infringement. They also rejected a request to ban the game’s service, citing an expired protection period.
