The Legal Attributes Of The Network Game's Equipment

With the arrival of the network society, the network game gradually becomes one important way of people's entertainments. Meanwhile, concerning the making, the using and the value of the network game's equipment, a series of legal matters arise. So the key of solving these legal problems lies in confirming the legal attributes of the network game's equipment. What's more, on the basis of comparing different views of legal attributes about network game's equipment, the author thinks: The network game's equipment is one of other legal properties which are listed by "the General Provisions of the Civil Law" of our country. And furthermore, the legal attribute of the network game's equipment is defined as a "virtual product". Thus, because the network game's equipment is a kind of "virtual product" and it exists among different network games, the concrete property right of it that the "virtual product" embodies, is limited by the different game operation patterns.If the network game's operator agrees on in the service agreement: The ownership of the network game's equipment belongs to the game's operators, so at this moment, to the game players after paying, the player only has the right of using the "virtual product", that is to say, at this moment, after paying the player has the "qualification" of the usage of "the network game's equipment", which belongs to the category of the Law of Creditor's Right. If the network game's operator agrees on in service agreement: The ownership of the network game's equipment belongs to the game's players, then, to the game player, the equipment is one of his movable properties. So the player has the ownership of the equipment and has the power to perform the proprietary right of the equipment. If the network game's operator makes no restrain in the agreement about the ownership of the network game's equipment, it can be confirmed that the ownership of the network game's equipment belongs to the network game's player.