Category: Video Games
Seeking the skinny on copyrights for NBA starsR...
Posted by Natalie Reynoso | Apr 17, 2018 | Copyright, Film, Intellectual Property, Licensing, Sports, Video Games | 0 |
For Video Game Manufacturers, Hollywood, and Other...
Posted by Anne M. Lum | Jan 24, 2018 | Intellectual Property, Privacy, Regulatory, Technology, Video Games, Web Services | 0 |
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No ‘fake news’ here: 15th an...

For Video Game Manufacturers, Hollywood,...

Not your average ROM com: No love lost a...

Q-&-A: As e-sports rise, Prof. Zach...

Court sorts out rights tiff in a mod, mo...

Appellate court gives boot to video game...

Alex Hunter isn’t the real thing. ...

Seeking the skinny on copyrights for NBA...

‘Oh, Really?’ Pokemon chased...
Not your average ROM com: No love lost as video game ’emulators’ get legal blast from Nintendo
by Biederman Blog Editors | Sep 23, 2018 | Copyright, Intellectual Property, Licensing, Trademark, Video Games | 0 |
This guest article is a courtesy cross-post from the social media of the Wolk & Levine law...
Read MoreSeeking the skinny on copyrights for NBA stars’ phat tattoos, federal judge keeps alive suit that pits ink artist against video game maker
by Natalie Reynoso | Apr 17, 2018 | Copyright, Film, Intellectual Property, Licensing, Sports, Video Games | 0 |
While legions of fans will focus with zeal and dread to see if LeBron James can lead the Cleveland...
Read MoreFor Video Game Manufacturers, Hollywood, and Other Makers of E- Entertainments Targeting Kids, Uncle Sam Offers 650,000 Reasons to Protect Privacy of Vulnerable Young
by Anne M. Lum | Jan 24, 2018 | Intellectual Property, Privacy, Regulatory, Technology, Video Games, Web Services | 0 |
Uncle Sam took out his regulatory stick recently and rapped the knuckles of a Hong Kong toy...
Read MoreNo ‘fake news’ here: 15th annual ‘Entertainment and Media Law Conference’ will tackle Trump Administration’s legal ‘disarray’ for media, entertainment industries
by Biederman Blog Editors | Jan 8, 2018 | Copyright, Film, Intellectual Property, International, Licensing, Privacy, Procedural, Regulatory, Social Media, Sports, Talent Representation, Technology, Television, Video, Video Games, Web Services | 0 |
The Media Law Resource Center and Southwestern Law School have hosted for 15 years the...
Read MoreAlex Hunter isn’t the real thing. He’s virtual. And Coke has made this star an endorsement pioneer. (Take note Entertainment Law practitioners)
by Victoria Carthorn | Dec 1, 2017 | Licensing, Right of publicity, Social Media, Sports, Talent Representation, Technology, Trademark, Video Games | 0 |
He’s a popular soccer player, a star in the English Premier League with millions of...
Read MoreQ-&-A: As e-sports rise, Prof. Zachary Levine considers if laws pertaining to games will whir, glow, and ping, or will they go on tilt?
by Victoria Carthorn | Oct 22, 2017 | Copyright, Events, Film, Intellectual Property, Licensing, Performance, Q & A, Sports, Talent Representation, Technology, Uncategorized, Video Games | 2 |
E-sports — aka electronic sports, aka competitive/professional video gaming — offers a novel and...
Read MoreCourt sorts out rights tiff in a mod, mod world
by Jackson Abbeduto | May 25, 2017 | Copyright, Intellectual Property, Technology, Video Games | 0 |
U.S. judge denies summary judgment in video gaming dispute, in which he dissects unitary vs....
Read MoreAppellate court gives boot to video game claims
by Justin Jennings | Jan 10, 2017 | Copyright, Sports, Video Games | 0 |
If plaintiffs aren’t clever enough to present the courts with the basics, notably the...
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Ollivierra, Lind named Institute co-directors
by Biederman Blog Editors | Nov 23, 2016 | Copyright, Film, Intellectual Property, International, Licensing, Music, Talent Representation, Television, Video, Video Games, Writing | 0 |
Southwestern Law School has announced that faculty members Neil Ollivierra and Robert Lind will serve as the new co-directors of the nationally recognized Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute. Lind is a Southwestern...
Read More‘Oh, Really?’ Pokemon chased by legal reality
by Sylvanna Le | Sep 8, 2016 | Oh, Really?, Regulatory, Technology, Video Games | 0 |
In our ‘Oh, Really?’ feature, the Biederman Blog’s editors and alumni— voracious consumers of...
Read MoreLegal ink’s not dry on copyright for tattoos
by Sylvanna Le | Mar 23, 2016 | Copyright, Licensing, Television, Video Games | 0 |
For centuries, the human race has shown an affinity for body art, often capturing works of art onto the human “canvas.” From tribesmen to notable celebrities today, tattoos have persisted in culture as a personal identifier....
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Barbs over ‘safe’ arrows raise legal quivers
by Mary P. Ray | Mar 13, 2016 | Comics, Copyright, Film, Video Games | 0 |
The movie studios, television networks, video game makers, and big-time music businesses on both coasts may wish to take note of a curious case playing out in the nation’s heartland. It’s raising some novel issues...
Read MoreFilmmakers’ win with a First Amendment blast
by Sylvanna Le | Mar 4, 2016 | Film, Right of publicity, Video Games | 0 |
With everyone from Hollywood producers to video game makers poring over the headlines for compelling people stories to convert into hot properties or products, California’s right of publicity law long has sought to:...
Read MoreSecond City’s new tax fails to amuse netizens
by Biederman Blog Editors | Oct 2, 2015 | Film, Licensing, Music, Regulatory, Technology, Television, Video Games | 0 |
This guest post was written by Travis J. Sabaitis, a student in the Entertainment Law and Web 2.0 course at Southwestern Law School. It isn’t even Halloween yet, but already for those in the entertainment industry, a...
Read MoreQ.-&-A.: Bert Fields on post-mortem rights
by Jessica Villar | Jul 24, 2015 | Copyright, Film, Licensing, Music, Performance, Right of publicity, Technology, Television, Video Games | 0 |
When legendary Entertainment lawyer Bert Fields recently addressed the Harvard Law Association at the Beverly Hills Bar, he, of course, brought down the house, delighting his audience with his comments on an array of topics. His...
Read MoreIn big-dollar publicity rights bid, athletes lose
by Jessica Villar | Jun 11, 2015 | Copyright, Right of publicity, Sports, Video Games | 0 |
Onetime college athletes seemed to have gotten a big win over broadcast networks and video game makers last year when a federal judge in California ruled that the NCAA could not keep athletes from licensing their own names and...
Read MoreUncle Sam adds new tactic to ‘notorious’ list
by Kristen Tojo | Mar 31, 2015 | Copyright, Film, International, Music, Regulatory, Television, Trademark, Video Games | 0 |
The U.S. Trade Representative recently released its annual Notorious Market List, which calls out markets where the infringing of intellectual property is most problematic and where markets themselves enable “substantial...
Read MoreAre gamers’ tiffs just the edge of a net specter?
by Kristen Tojo | Feb 12, 2015 | Copyright, Licensing, Technology, Video Games | 0 |
Who owns the technology that now is intrinsic to our daily lives? Chances are, it is not you. While users may own the physical devices, the technology that drives them, the intellectual property that they rely on, and their...
Read MoreA legal move seeks to help video gamers play on
by Nicole Christman | Nov 21, 2014 | Copyright, Licensing, Procedural, Technology, Video Games | 0 |
You paid a nice chunk of change and you do own that Entertainment-related intellectual property, right? It may sound familiar to fans of digital music who sought to resell their “used” collections through the online...
Read MoreWith infringing rap game, elusive damages
by Karen Hao | Apr 30, 2014 | Copyright, Music, Video Games | 0 |
So you’re a Entertainment Law litigator and you get a case in which the facts seem on your side and the monetary damages that might follow could sound, well, juicy. As a recent case involving a rap song video game shows,...
Read MoreVideo game addiction? Court dings dad’s claim
by Karen Hao | Mar 5, 2014 | Technology, Video Games | 0 |
While video gamers can go on outlandish binges of play — take the fatal, 50-hour ordeal undertaken on Aug. 5, 2005 by Seung Seop Lee — can someone pursue legal action, asserting harm from another’s video-game...
Read MoreVideogamers zapped with a reading lesson
by Karen Hao | Mar 2, 2014 | Copyright, Video Games | 0 |
The devil’s in the details — and so was a federal judge’s recent decision, rejecting a claim by some impatient gamers, infuriated that they had to wait, gosh, two whole doggone weeks, before they could play...
Read MoreOptioning a life story? Tap these online tips
by Valerie Roque | Feb 24, 2014 | Copyright, Film, Television, Video Games | 0 |
The trend in entertainment in recent years has been for movies to be based on actual people and actual events, consider such titles as Fruitvale Station, Lone Survivor,and Wolf on Wall Street . As Variety notes:...
Read MoreDoink! An $11-million ‘Madden’ reverse play
by Karen Hao | Jan 30, 2014 | Copyright, Technology, Video Games | 0 |
Envision the big fellow, hands waving, he’s a little wheezy and loud as he pronounces: “So this guy goes this way, and then this one that way, and, everyone’s running around and… Boom! Suddenly you have...
Read MoreBurbling of monster babe: It’s ‘work for hire’
by Elissa "Eli" Buenrostro | Nov 10, 2013 | Copyright, Video Games | 0 |
Amanda Lewis, an ex-employee of Activision Blizzard, has been “WOW’d” by the loss of her recent federal copyright infringement suit against the video-game publishing powerhouse. Activision, along with co-defendant, Blizzard...
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