Video Game Law in a Nutshell

Video Game Law in a Nutshell
Author: DAN D.. CHANG NABEL (BILL.)
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-11-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781685614515

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Video Game Law in a Nutshell provides legal practitioners and game developers with a concise, easy-to-use guide for navigating the complexities of developing, publishing and distributing video games. Starting with content creation and ending with esports, this text explores every aspect of a game's life cycle, covering a diverse range of useful topics including monetization, IP protection, game engine licensing, privacy, player management, dealing with malicious actors, and much, much more. Written by industry veterans and adjunct law professors, Dan Nabel and Bill Chang, this work offers unparalleled insights and practical tips derived from actual, real-world experience.

Video Game Law

Video Game Law
Author: S. Gregory Boyd
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2018-06-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 042989239X

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Video Game Law is aimed at game developers and industry professionals who want to better understand the industry or are in need of expert legal guidance. Given the rise in international competition, the increasing complexity of video game features, and the explosive growth of the industry in general, game developers can quickly find themselves in serious trouble, becoming vulnerable to copyright infringement claims, piracy, and even security breaches. Not every video game company has the financial resources to retain in-house counsel–which Video Game Law seeks to address by discussing many of the common pitfalls, legal questions, and scenarios facing the industry. S. Gregory Boyd, Brian Pyne, and Sean F. Kane, the most prominent, sought after, and respected video game attorneys in the country, break down the laws and legal concepts that every game developer and industry professional needs to know in order to better protect their game and grow their company. KEY FEATURES: • Provides a solid understanding of intellectual property (IP) concepts and laws, including copyright, trademark, trade secret, and other protections that apply to video games and how each can be employed to protect a company’s unique and valuable IP • Explores cutting edge legal issues that affect the gaming industry, including gambling, virtual currency, privacy laws, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, tax incentives, and relevant piracy laws • Provides an overview of legal and privacy vocabulary and concepts needed to navigate and succeed in an industry that is constantly growing and evolving • Provides illustrative examples and legal concepts from the video game industry in every chapter

Video Game Law

Video Game Law
Author: Jonathan B. Festinger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012
Genre: Electronic games industry
ISBN: 9780433460756

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Video Game Law, 2nd Edition addresses the overlapping and emerging issues relating to IP, freedom of speech, employment, defamation, privacy, licensing and torts as they arise within the context of the video games industry, offering unique legal analysis and guidance unavailable elsewhere."--Pub. desc.

Entertainment Law in a Nutshell

Entertainment Law in a Nutshell
Author: Sherri Burr
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN:

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Video Games and the Law

Video Games and the Law
Author: Elizabeth Townsend Gard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2017-01-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351805975

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The video game industry is big business, not only in terms of the substantial revenue generated through retail sales of games themselves, but also in terms of the size and value of parallel and secondary markets. Consider any popular video game today, and you most likely are looking at a franchise that includes not only the game itself and all of its variants but also toys, books, movies, and more, with legions of fans that interact with the industry in myriad ways. Surveying the legal landscape of this emergent industry, Ron Gard and Elizabeth Townsend-Gard shed light on the many important topics where law is playing an important role. In examining these issues, Video Games and the Law is both a legal and a cultural look at the development of the video game industry and the role that law has played so far in this industry’s ability to thrive and grow.

Video Game Law

Video Game Law
Author: Jonathan B. Festinger
Publisher: Markham, Ont. : LexisNexis Butterworths
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Electronic games industry
ISBN: 9780433447597

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Computer and Video Game Law

Computer and Video Game Law
Author: Ashley S. Lipson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 758
Release: 2009
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN:

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Fun and games have become serious business as evidenced by the rapidly expanding, multi-billion dollar, global computer and video game industry. The relatively new entertainment medium has been growing exponentially and so, too, have its legal difficulties. This new casebook, with its problems and exercises, deals with all aspects of this fascinating phenomenon, including: Product History and Development, Intellectual Property, Commercial Exploitation, and Regulation. The cases guide the reader down a colorful path of disputes involving such familiar hardware names and game titles as: Magnavox, Gameboy, Nintendo, Playstation, Pong, Pacman, Space Invaders, Tetris, Tomb Raider, Frogger, Galaxian, Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Pete Rose Baseball, and Doom. The casebook is suitable as a primary text for both classes and seminars. "What this book is and what this book isn't both matter. Computer and Video Game Law is not a collection of regurgitation in which authors explain the minutia of a few big cases to people with a cursory interest. It is a compendium of cases, and an excellent compendium at that. It has big cases with big names like Nintendo and Sony battling over trademarks and copyrights. It has small cases such as the one in which a martial artist sued over the use of his image in a bestselling game. I wish this book had existed when I wrote my book on the history of video games. I spent hundreds of dollars doing the research for my chapter on video game trials and acquired not even a third of the case material contained in this book." -- Steven L. Kent, Game Historian, Author of The Ultimate History of Video Games

Mastering the Game:

Mastering the Game:
Author: World Intellectual Property Organization
Publisher: WIPO
Total Pages: 378
Release:
Genre: Law
ISBN:

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“Mastering the Game” provides professionals in the videogames industry with practical insights and guidance on legal and business issues related to the use of intellectual property protection in this area. The training material takes the reader through all stages of the game development and distribution process pointing out the role of intellectual property in relation to the various uses of the content.

Video Games and the Law

Video Games and the Law
Author: Elizabeth Townsend Gard
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2017-01-12
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1351805983

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The video game industry is big business, not only in terms of the substantial revenue generated through retail sales of games themselves, but also in terms of the size and value of parallel and secondary markets. Consider any popular video game today, and you most likely are looking at a franchise that includes not only the game itself and all of its variants but also toys, books, movies, and more, with legions of fans that interact with the industry in myriad ways. Surveying the legal landscape of this emergent industry, Ron Gard and Elizabeth Townsend-Gard shed light on the many important topics where law is playing an important role. In examining these issues, Video Games and the Law is both a legal and a cultural look at the development of the video game industry and the role that law has played so far in this industry’s ability to thrive and grow.

Video Game Law

Video Game Law
Author: Mark A. Lemley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Video games industry
ISBN:

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"Video games are big business -- far larger than music, movies, and even professional sports. But they have long been neglected in academic study, and law is no exception. Fortunately that is starting to change. There are more than a dozen classes in video game law currently being offered in law schools. And the case law is developing fast. Our casebook covers a variety of topics, from intellectual property to the First Amendment to torts, contracts, and property to antitrust and market structure to business considerations." -- Stanford Law School website.