2/12/2025 10:31:20 AM Trade mark dispute over use of baseball Future Stars By Simon Clark Sony Interactive goes to trial this month in the US in a trade mark dispute over their baseball video game MLB: The Show, which has been...
1/23/2025 1:03:02 PM Introducing The Safety Net: Online safety resource hub By Faye Harrison Mark Watts Hannah Crowther Mike Edgar Anna Ní Uiginn Subha Kumar Rose Lynch Naina Patel Kiran Sidhu +6 more... Show less We are delighted to announce the launch of The Safety Net – our brand-new hub dedicated to all things online safety.The Online Safety Act...
10/11/2024 1:27:00 PM 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,...
9/25/2024 12:14:29 PM 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...
8/5/2024 12:30:17 PM 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...
7/3/2024 12:24:15 PM Deepfakes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly By Bristows We recently attended the Society for Computers & Law event ‘Generative AI & Deepfakes: Understanding the Illusion’. Among plenty of jokes...
5/31/2024 10:09:16 AM 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...
4/23/2024 1:41:01 PM 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...
4/16/2024 4:08:44 PM 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...
2/6/2024 11:40:34 AM 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...
9/21/2023 3:47:00 PM 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...
4/3/2023 12:21:13 PM 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...