11 Nov, 2024 Can You Avoid Copyright Claims By Modifying Props Used in Your Ads? By Brian Murphy In Crystal Castles, the arcade game released by Atari in 1983, the player controls Bentley Bear, a bruin tasked with collecting gems...
10 Apr, 2023 You're Invited: Upcoming Webinars, Seminars, and Conferences By Jeff Greenbaum If you're interested in hearing more about the latest developments in advertising, intellectual property, and privacy law, lawyers from...
20 Nov, 2020 The Winner of the Console Wars is … Light Beer? By Frances Jensen Bud Light has entered the chat. Anheuser-Busch’s popular brand of light beer, Bud Light, announced its own video game console named the...
20 Oct, 2020 Liar Liar, Mobile Game Ads Under Fire -- ASA Bans Misleading Ads for Mobile Games By Jennifer Batista The Advertising Standards Authority (the “ASA”), the UK's independent advertising regulator, banned two misleading ads for the Homescapes...
19 Oct, 2020 CARU Says: Discord Is Not Directed At Children Under 13 By Mma Afoaku In this day and age, there is a proliferation of social media networks which enable people from different ages and walks of life to...
27 Jul, 2020 Commercials in Your Console -- Marketers Experiment With Ad Placement in Console Video Games By Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz I was sitting on my couch this weekend buried in my phone. Tapping furiously, I swapped multicolored candies back and forth. Ultimately I...
23 Jun, 2020 Prescription Video Games? FDA Authorizes Marketing For First "Prescription-Only Game-Based Device" By Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Just last week the U.S. Food and Drug administration authorized marketing for the first “prescription-only game-based device” -- in other...
02 Apr, 2018 Xbox Arbitration Provision Adequately Accepted by Click-Through By Greg Boyd U.S. District Judge Joan Gottschall agreed with Microsoft that its arbitration provision was valid and overcame a class action bid. She...
02 Apr, 2018 Virtual Property Casino Found to Be Gambling in Washington By Greg Boyd For the second time in the US and the second time in Washington State, a court has found that an online game could constitute illegal...
02 Apr, 2018 Pokemon Go Virtual Trespassing Class Action Continues By Greg Boyd A multi-state class action relating to Pokemon Go has survived a motion to dismiss. Judge James Donato in the Northern District of...
06 Mar, 2018 Game Company Introduces Parent-Kid Contracts for Playtime By Greg Boyd Chinese game company, Tencent, has a very popular title among children - Honor of Kings. With 200 million players, the game previously...
09 Jan, 2018 Only Use Images from Your Own Game In Advertising By Greg Boyd The ASA recently found that Funplus, developer of King of Avalon: Dragon Warfare should only use images from its own game in advertising....
04 Jan, 2018 Game Apps Listen While You Watch Television By Greg Boyd The Alphonso software is a collection of more than 250 games. In addition to the obvious use, the software is capable of listening to...
03 Jan, 2018 Apple Requires Loot Box Odds Disclosure By Greg Boyd Advertising law practitioners may want to consider what a recent change in Apple video game developer rules means for the ever-popular...
25 Jan, 2017 The Legal Challenges of Augmented Reality – Part 1: The Basics By Novika Ishar The sudden rise of Pokémon Go was one of the biggest news stories of 2016. While the introduction of reality-altering applications has...