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Nicholas Hall is South Africa’s leading lawyer in the digital entertainment industry. Nicholas is very well known in the South African video games industry (where he is a founding member of Make Games South Africa, a local community for video game development and sits on the board of Interactive Entertainment South Africa, the local industry body for game development). You can read his articles below or find out more about him.

Game Monetization and the Law

Game monetization is a tricky business. In the modern market, where casual games have become simpler than ever to produce and distribute over the internet, control over the monetization of your casual game is an exciting power to have. But [...]

By |2025-01-21T13:00:54+02:00September 16th, 2015|Categories: Digital Entertainment Law|Tags: , |

Effective Date for R and D Tax break for Software Developers

Earlier in the year we blogged about the new R&D tax break available for Software Developers. In terms of the Tax Laws Amendment Act people would be able to start applying for the tax deduction from 1 April 2012, unless [...]

By |2022-12-07T10:09:35+02:00April 16th, 2012|Categories: IT Law|Tags: , , , |

Product Liability for Damage caused by Goods

If you sell defective goods or products, you may be responsible for the harm anyone suffers. This is called product liability. You might have to pay for all of it, even if it was not your fault. You cannot limit this [...]

By |2022-12-22T08:32:49+02:00March 6th, 2011|Categories: Contracts|Tags: , , |

"Grey" Goods under the Consumer Protection Act

"Grey" goods or parallel imports are goods that have been imported into a country through unofficial or unauthorized distribution channels. Grey goods are not illegal. But because they have not been imported through official channels, if the good breaks, the [...]

By |2022-12-08T15:43:45+02:00February 21st, 2011|Categories: Consumer Protection|Tags: , , |

Consumer Protection Act – Size Matters

The Consumer Protection Act will not apply to transactions where the "consumer" is a juristic person (company or a CC) where that juristic person has annual turnover OR asset value over a 'certain value'. The Department of Trade and Industry have [...]

By |2022-11-29T14:56:37+02:00October 15th, 2010|Categories: Consumer Protection|Tags: , |

Hyper-linked email disclaimers coming to an end?

It is an all too familiar sight to see emails ended with a lengthy disclaimer, often in tiny text, and if the email thread is very long, it could be repeated multiple times making the thread incredibly (and unnecessarily) long. [...]

By |2022-12-15T08:59:46+02:00September 20th, 2010|Categories: Email Law|Tags: , |

Protection of Information Bill not Protection of Personal Information Bill

There has been a lot of confusion (understandably) about the Protection of Information Bill (POI) and the Protection of Personal Information Bill (POPI), though that extra 'P' makes all the difference. First of all, they are different bills, dealing with [...]

By |2022-12-22T09:45:01+02:00September 20th, 2010|Categories: POPI and Data Protection|Tags: , , , |

Update on the PPI Bill (June 2010)

On 21 May 2010 and again on 4 June 2010 the sub-committee for Justice and Constitutional Development met to discuss further the Protection of Personal Information Bill. While most of the discussion was about minor amendments to the Bill, the [...]

By |2022-12-20T12:54:11+02:00June 9th, 2010|Categories: POPI and Data Protection|Tags: , , |