Agenda
AMA: Ask Lawyers Anything (This Normally Costs Money!)
Ryan Black (Partner; Global Lead, Video Games, DLA Piper (Canada) LLP)
Maya Yamazaki (Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP)
Brandon Huffman (Founder, Odin Law and Media)
Angelo Alcid (Senior Corporate Counsel, Gaming, Microsoft Corp.)
Yan Perng (Director, Legal, Blizzard Entertainment)
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Track:
Business Strategy, Production & Team Leadership
Audience Level:
All
Format:
Ask Me Anything
Vault Recording: TBD
Audience Level: All
This roundtable session allows you to ask any burning legal questions* you may have from a group of industry lawyers. This is a group of video game enthusiasts who happen to be lawyers (or, sure, vice versa). They met at video game and lawyer conventions (yes, video game lawyer conventions are a thing) and have been speaking for years about legal topics near and dear to their favourite digital pastime. The topics to be discussed if nobody's brave: influencer advertising; loot boxes; IP law; corp stuff; the rise of AI; web3 (if we have to); trademarks and other intellectual property; but we'd love to answer YOUR questions and give out legal info on video game and law topics.
* The speakers can't give specific legal advice; and aren't insured for that! Use hypotheticals, people! Of course there's a disclaimer here... we are lawyers, after all.
* The speakers can't give specific legal advice; and aren't insured for that! Use hypotheticals, people! Of course there's a disclaimer here... we are lawyers, after all.
Takeaway
An engaging and entertaining look inside the discussions video game lawyers have with clients, as well as an appreciation of the issues that arise in games. Above all else, talking to lawyers can be scary and we want to demystify that! Getting good legal advice is critical to games success.
Intended Audience
Anyone interested in the games business! We put these on to make interacting with lawyers approachable and non-scary; we hope you come with legal questions that have been on your mind!