Digital Entertainment Law

Digital Entertainment Law, Game Law, interactive entertainment law, video game law, or computer game law are emerging fields of Law. The field is growing constantly and now incorporates eSports. Most commonly, eSports takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions.

Digital Entertainment Lawyers need to have a blend of various skills. They need to know and love games, understand technology and have solid knowledge and experience of the law and how it impacts on games. One of our attorneys belongs to the Video Game Bar Association and is the current chairperson of Make Games – an Association of Game Makers.

We provide legal assistance to game developers around the world by advising on business structuring, registering companies, developing shareholders agreements, contracting employees and contractors, transferring IP offshore, managing  IP, developing licensing agreements and critically providing opinions on the legal aspects of their games.

Read our recent Insights relating to Digital Entertainment Law below.

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: , |

Do Sponsored YouTube Videos require notice?

Are sponsored YouTube videos required to notify the view that they have been paid for? In the USA (as well as in the UK) as a general rule, paid-for advertising must be clearly labelled as such, and this extends to [...]

By |2019-07-04T12:34:05+02:00September 10th, 2015|Categories: Digital Entertainment Law|Tags: |

Using People’s Likeness In Games

Nick Hall talks about using people's likeness in games and how this connects to likeness rights law in the US and South Africa. There have been a number of fairly famous likeness rights law cases recently, including: Lady Gaga sued Mine Candy, [...]