Representing the Games Industry Client 2013
October 23, 2013 - October 24, 2013
CLE - Live Seminar
USA
Description
The interactive games industry is expanding with blinding speed. The nature of the products, delivery platforms, economic models, regulatory considerations, key players, content and financing issues are all inter-related parts of a big picture. This from an industry that was virtually unknown 30 years ago! Intellectual property, including videogames, has become one of America’s leading exports in the 21st Century. The emergence of the Internet, Facebook and other social platforms and destinations, Apple iOS, Android, tablet computers, and other digital delivery vehicles, the explosive growth of casual and social gaming, and the emergence of games of chance as a potential new and fertile area for growth, have broadened the reach and audiences for games far beyond teen with their videogame consoles and personal computers. Any lawyer who represents creators of content, developers of technology or other intellectual property should have a basic understanding of current business and legal issues and practices in this dynamic field.
- The parties to the deal – multiple interests are the norm, not the exception, in games deals
- Understanding and negotiating key IP issues
- Deal terms found in every developer-publisher game development negotiation
- Licensing developer “tools and tech” – how far should rights granted to a game publisher extend?
- Termination clauses in game development contracts – when the deal ends early
- Subcontracting and outsourcing: Securing sufficient IP rights from your off-shore suppliers
- Monetizing games – a developer’s and a publisher’s view of the issue
- Defining the category of “Social Games” – intro to Facebook, Browser, Mobile, Social Games
- Monetizing “free to play”
- Contests and promotions – what is legal and what is not?
- Games of skill vs. games of chance: When are your games violating anti-gambling laws?
- Privacy issues and social games: The current FTC regulatory environment
- CA State enforcement actions under CalOPPA
- Does your online privacy policy meet the latest requirements; update on marketing to children (COPPA)
- Protection of Personally Identifiable Information – what is required? Making sure you’re in compliance with the law
- Financing start-up developers and publishers – methods and strategies to raise or source capital for game development and publishing – and exiting when the time is right
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Practising Law Institute
810 Seventh Avenue
New York, New York
United States of America
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