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GDC Festival of Gaming
March 9-13, 2026
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA
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Ask Video Game Lawyers Anything (Legal AMA): This Normally Costs Money! Day 1

Ryan Black  (Partner; Global Pillar Co-Lead: Video Games and Interactive Entertainment, DLA Piper (Canada) LLP)
Yan Perng  (Director, Legal, Blizzard Entertainment)
Angelo Alcid  (Senior Corporate Counsel, Gaming, Microsoft Corp.)
Brandon Huffman  (Managing Attorney, Odin Law and Media)
Location: Room 204, South Hall
Date: Monday, March 9
Time: 1:50 pm - 2:50 pm
Pass Type: Festival Pass, Game Changer Pass - Get your pass now!
Audience Level: All
Track: Independent Development
Format: Forum
Vault Recording: Not Recorded
Audience Level: All
Ryan Black
Yan Perng
Angelo Alcid
Brandon Huffman

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.

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!