11/11/2024 10:10:24 PM Can You Avoid Copyright Claims By Modifying Props Used in Your Ads? By Brian Murphy In Crystal Castles, the arcade game released by Atari in 1983, the player controls Bentley Bear, a bruin tasked with collecting gems...
6/28/2023 3:52:20 PM A Once and Future Thing: Legal Considerations for Artificial Intelligence & Video Games By Emma Smizer Introduction Artificial intelligence and all its many iterations, such as neural networks and machine learning, are not new to video...
3/2/2023 9:43:43 PM California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act Impact: Five Things the Video Game Industry Needs to Know By Emma Smizer Rick Borden This post has been edited as of March 17, 2023 to reflect updated information. Welcome to part two of a five-part series, where we're...
10/20/2022 8:53:37 PM A Tale of Two Truck Simulator Games and the First Amendment By Frances Jensen Emma Smizer An ongoing dispute between Saber Interactive and Oovee Ltd. is the latest involving real-world vehicles in games. On October 6, 2022,...
9/20/2021 8:51:10 PM Professional Skateboarder Loses Lanham Act Case Against Video Game Companies By Saphya Council A California federal court recently handed a big win to game publishers in a case involving Lanham Act claims. Here’s a summary of what...
4/27/2021 2:52:14 PM Ready Student One: New Virtual Exchange Program Seeks to Solve Global Issues through Video Games By Jennifer Batista On April 7, 2021, the U.S. Department of State announced a surprising new initiative, the launch of a video game development exchange...
2/24/2021 9:14:55 PM New Illinois Bill Would Expand Restrictions on Video Games By Saphya Council Many states have banned video games that depict gore, sex, and gambling, on the ground that minors have access to them. That is why...
12/22/2020 6:41:44 PM Blizzard Sued for "Wiretapping" World of Warcraft Website Visitors By Rick Zou A $5,000,000 legal raid is underway against Blizzard Entertainment Inc. (“Blizzard”) and its World of Warcraft website, over Blizzard’s...
11/20/2020 12:00:00 AM The Winner of the Console Wars is…Light Beer? By Frances Jensen Bud Light has entered the chat. Anheuser-Busch’s popular brand of light beer, Bud Light, announced its own video game console named the...
11/10/2020 11:20:26 PM High Scores and High Stakes: How a Defamation Suit Emerged from Donkey Kong By Jennifer Batista In April 2018, Twin Galaxies, an organization whose video game leaderboard records have been historically recognized as official records...
7/8/2020 1:45:05 AM Betting Against the House? House of Lords Gambling Committee Calls for "Immediate" Regulation of Loot Boxes as Gambling. By Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz In its recently released report, "Gambling Harm - Time for Action," the UK Parliament's House of Lords gave an urgent recommendation to...
6/11/2020 12:00:00 AM Twitch Faces the Music: A Sudden Influx of DMCA Takedown Notices Hits Twitch By Rick Zou Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) strikes are finally hitting Twitch over copyrighted music used in streams. Over the past few...
6/5/2020 12:00:00 AM May I Have This Dance? Epic Games Prevails in Second Dance Emote Suit. By Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Things continue to heat up on the dance floor as Fortnite developer and publisher Epic Games, Inc. secured a second decisive victory in...
5/7/2020 12:00:00 AM No More Monkeying Around - Donkey Kong High Score Record Holder Sues Video Game Leaderboard For Defamation By Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Famed video game score-chaser Billy Mitchell has struck back against arcade leaderboard Twin Galaxies' determination that at least two of...
5/2/2020 12:00:00 AM Gambling Games by Another Name? District Court Offers Clarity On Line Between Social Gaming and Gambling. By Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz The United States District Court for the Western District of Washington recently weighed in on the line between permissible unregulated...
4/17/2020 12:00:00 AM Epic Games Dances Around Infringement Claims as Court Finds Transformative Use By Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz As mentioned in our recent Interactive Entertainment Alert and continuing a run of high-profile video game litigation in the United...