03 Jul, 2024 Deepfakes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly By Daniel Owen We recently attended the Society for Computers & Law event ‘Generative AI & Deepfakes: Understanding the Illusion’. Among plenty of jokes...
31 May, 2024 Stop Killing Games: UK Government responds to video game preservation petition By Alice Esuola-Grant Luca Cericola The Stop Killing Games ("SKG") campaign materialised after video game publisher Ubisoft notified users that it would be delisting The...
23 Apr, 2024 Bristows at the Games Industry Law Summit: On Tour II By Charles Purdie Alice Esuola-Grant Last week, two of our associates, Charlie Purdie and Alice Esuola-Grant, attended the 2024 edition of the Games Industry Law Summit: On...
16 Apr, 2024 UK video games consumer market valued at £7.82bn in 2023 By Charles Purdie Last week, Ukie (the UK's video games and interactive entertainment trade body) published its Consumer Market Valuation Report, valuing...
06 Feb, 2024 Pokémon v Palworld - inspiration or infringement? By Charles Purdie It is sometimes said that there is a fine line between taking inspiration from another’s work and infringement of intellectual property...
21 Sep, 2023 Will Microsoft’s call of duty to restructure Activision deal pay off? By Stephen Smith Victoria Yuan Matthew Hunt James Johnston +1 more... Show less Stephen Smith, Victoria Yuan, Matthew Hunt and James Johnston discuss the CMA's Phase 1 review of the Microsoft/Activision restructured...
03 Apr, 2023 Apple's challenge of CMA's mobile browsers / cloud gaming investigation bears fruit By Matthew Hunt Back in January I summarised the procedural challenge Apple had made against the CMA's decision to carry out a market investigation into...
30 Mar, 2023 New ICO guidance on services 'likely to be accessed by children' By Faye Harrison The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued new, draft guidance regarding when an information society service is 'likely to be...
20 Feb, 2023 ICO boosts Children's Code with walkthrough for game developers By Michael Edgar On 15th February 2023, the ICO published 'Top Tips' to help game designers/developers comply with its Age Appropriate Design Code (also...
24 Jan, 2023 Apple seeks to block CMA’s cloud gaming market investigation By Matthew Hunt On Friday it emerged that Apple is challenging the CMA’s decision to carry out a market investigation into browsers and cloud gaming...
21 Nov, 2022 Bob Iger back at the helm of Disney! By Bristows In a remarkable turn of events, former Disney CEO Bob Iger, was announced yesterday as the new CEO of Disney, returning to replace Bob...
17 Nov, 2022 Panel discussion on AI and IP By Victoria Rodriguez On Tuesday evening, Bristows hosted an IPSoc panel discussion on AI and IP. We were lucky to have a dreamy panel consisting of: Jacob...