French Supreme Court rules against the second-hand sales of digital video games

In a long-awaited decision dated October 23, 2024, rendered in the Valve v. UFC-Que Choisir case, the French Cour de cassation (French Supreme Civil Court) confirmed that the principle of exhaustion of rights, which allows consumers to resell physical copies of video games without the consent of the rights holder, does not apply to dematerialized copies of video games, thereby reinforcing the rights of video games publishers.