11 Oct, 2024 Bungie's "First Defence" against "Red War" copyright infringement claim in Destiny 2 By Charlie Purdie On 2 October 2024, author Matthew Martineau issued a claim against Bungie (developer of the popular video FPS looter shooter game,...
25 Sep, 2024 Thank you for the .music By Simon Clark One of the most anticipated generic top-level domains (gTLD) in recent times will drop for general availability on 8 October 2024. This...
05 Aug, 2024 Stop Killing Games: European Citizen's Initiative seeks 1 million signatures to keep video games alive By Alice Esuola-Grant Luca Cericola As predicted in our previous article on the Stop Killing Games ("SKG") petition earlier this year, the dissolution of Parliament ahead...
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 Charlie 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 Charlie 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 Charlie 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 Mike Edgar On 15th February 2023, the ICO published 'Top Tips' to help game designers/developers comply with its Age Appropriate Design Code (also...