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 "name": "Who takes a game's source code",
 "title": "Who takes a game's source code",
 "kind": "terms-board",
 "url": "https://sellgamesourcecode.com/datasets/game-source-code-data-buyers/",
 "csv": "https://sellgamesourcecode.com/datasets/game-source-code-data-buyers.csv",
 "markdown": "https://sellgamesourcecode.com/datasets/game-source-code-data-buyers/index.md",
 "computed_at": "2026-10-28",
 "license": "https://sellgamesourcecode.com/terms",
 "headline": "3 of 14 organisations and marketplaces whose pages we read take a game's code without taking ownership of it, read 28 October 2026.",
 "quotes": [
  "3 of 14 organisations and marketplaces whose pages we read take a game's code without taking ownership of it, read 28 October 2026.",
  "How it takes the code, by organisation: a licence to the code or game data for AI 5 of 14, an asset store that sells it on as a licence 5 of 14, a marketplace where the seller lists it 4 of 14 (14 organisations, read 28 October 2026).",
  "Whether the seller keeps the code, by organisation: not stated 11 of 14, the seller keeps the code 3 of 14 (14 organisations, read 28 October 2026).",
  "What it says, in its words, by organisation: stated 14 of 14 (14 organisations, read 28 October 2026)."
 ],
 "citation": "\"Who takes a game's source code\", updated 2026-10-28, https://sellgamesourcecode.com/datasets/game-source-code-data-buyers/.",
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  "named_sources": 15
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     {
      "value": "marketplace",
      "text": "a marketplace where the seller lists it"
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      "value": "store",
      "text": "an asset store that sells it on as a licence"
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      "value": "data-licence",
      "text": "a licence to the code or game data for AI"
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     {
      "value": "buys-outright",
      "text": "a purchase of the code outright"
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     {
      "value": "keeps",
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      "value": "transfers",
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    "id": "terms",
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   {
    "name": "Acquire.com",
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      "value": "marketplace",
      "text": "a marketplace where the seller lists it",
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       {
        "document": "Acquire.com home page",
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        "quote": "Create and publish your business listing to 500k+ buyers"
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       {
        "document": "Acquire.com home page",
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     "terms": {
      "value": "stated",
      "text": "Buy and sell SaaS, ecommerce, agencies, content, newsletters, mobile apps and crypto…",
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       {
        "document": "Acquire.com home page",
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        "quote": "Buy and sell SaaS, ecommerce, agencies, content, newsletters, mobile apps and crypto businesses."
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       {
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       {
        "document": "CodeCanyon licences page",
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     "terms": {
      "value": "stated",
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       {
        "document": "CodeCanyon licences page",
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       {
        "document": "Defined.ai partnership programmes page",
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     "seller_keeps": {
      "value": "not-stated",
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       {
        "document": "Defined.ai partnership programmes page",
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     "terms": {
      "value": "stated",
      "text": "Any business that generates or aggregates data",
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       {
        "document": "Defined.ai partnership programmes page",
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        "value": "stated",
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     "seller_keeps": {
      "value": "not-stated",
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       {
        "document": "Empire Flippers home page",
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     },
     "terms": {
      "value": "stated",
      "text": "Join thousands of customers around the globe who’ve bought and sold over $600M+ worth of…",
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       {
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   },
   {
    "name": "Flippa",
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       {
        "document": "Flippa game listings",
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        "quote": "The #1 Marketplace to buy and sell online businesses, websites and digital assets."
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     "seller_keeps": {
      "value": "not-stated",
      "text": "not stated",
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       {
        "document": "Flippa game listings",
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     "terms": {
      "value": "stated",
      "text": "The #1 Marketplace to buy and sell online businesses, websites and digital assets.",
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       {
        "document": "Flippa game listings",
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        "quote": "The #1 Marketplace to buy and sell online businesses, websites and digital assets."
       }
      ]
     }
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   },
   {
    "name": "itch.io",
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       {
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     "seller_keeps": {
      "value": "not-stated",
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       {
        "document": "itch.io terms of service",
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        "quote": ""
       }
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     "terms": {
      "value": "stated",
      "text": "Publishers affirm, represent, and warrant that they own or have the rights, licenses…",
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       {
        "document": "itch.io terms of service",
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        "quote": "Publishers affirm, represent, and warrant that they own or have the rights, licenses, permissions and consents necessary to publish, duplicate, and distribute the submitted content."
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   },
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     "seller_keeps": {
      "value": "not-stated",
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       {
        "document": "itch.io getting started guide",
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       }
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        "document": "Mercor game studio data listing",
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        "quote": "License the company records, game code and gameplay footage behind the games you've shipped."
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     "seller_keeps": {
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       {
        "document": "Mercor game studio data listing",
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     },
     "terms": {
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        "document": "Mercor game studio data listing",
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   },
   {
    "name": "Mercor, software companies",
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      "value": "data-licence",
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       {
        "document": "Mercor software company data listing",
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        "quote": "License the private code the engineering team has built, and the history behind it."
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      ]
     },
     "seller_keeps": {
      "value": "not-stated",
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       {
        "document": "Mercor software company data listing",
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      ]
     },
     "terms": {
      "value": "stated",
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        "document": "Mercor software company data listing",
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       {
        "document": "SellAnyCode home page",
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        "document": "SellAnyCode home page",
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        "document": "SellAnyCode home page",
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        "document": "ZENOS Data home page",
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   "label": "Turing, Project Lazarus",
   "license": "cited for reporting; the publisher's own the organisations' and marketplaces' own pages",
   "class": "primary-provider-own-site",
   "status": "read"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://defined.ai/partnerships",
   "label": "Defined.ai partnerships",
   "license": "cited for reporting; the publisher's own the organisations' and marketplaces' own pages",
   "class": "primary-provider-own-site",
   "status": "read"
  }
 ],
 "methodology": "Each organisation's own the organisations' and marketplaces' own pages were read through estate-fetch and stored whole (sha256 on every row). For every page, three questions were answered from its own words: how it takes the code, whether the seller keeps the code, what it says, in its words. Every stated answer carries the sentence it rests on, checked against the stored text; 'not stated' means the page read does not address the question. A organisation with several pages reads 'varies' where they disagree. 14 organisations, 14 pages.",
 "embed": "<figure style=\"margin:0;padding:16px;border:1px solid #d0d0d0;background:#ffffff\"><blockquote style=\"margin:0 0 8px;background:#ffffff\">3 of 14 organisations and marketplaces whose pages we read take a game's code without taking ownership of it, read 28 October 2026.</blockquote><figcaption style=\"background:#ffffff\"><a href=\"https://sellgamesourcecode.com/datasets/game-source-code-data-buyers/\" style=\"background:#ffffff\">Who takes a game's source code, sellgamesourcecode.com</a></figcaption></figure>"
}