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Video Game Law Blog
Current issues in video game law.
| A majority of the shareholders of voted in favour of putting a new board in place at Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.’s annual general meeting.
A group of large shareholders decided that [read more]Tuesday, 10 April 2007 | Casper Bych |
| The ad, which is not for any specific game, involves a street race between two cars in heavy traffic. The race culminates in one of the cars overturning. Though the cars never exceed the speed limit, [read more]Monday, 9 April 2007 | Tudor Carsten |
| In yet a further chapter in the Guitar Hero legal saga, RedOctane’s parent Activision has settled its lawsuit against two former Guitar Hero executives. Activision alleged that the former employees [read more]Thursday, 5 April 2007 | Chris Bennett |
| The Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) directors have ultimately rejected banning the use of adult-rated video game ads on agency buses and trains. The ban, which was put forward by the [read more]Tuesday, 3 April 2007 | Sarah Dale-Harris |
| On Mar 14, 2007, House Bill No. 77 was “Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee” in the House of Representatives. Delaware Representative Helene Keeley is once again attempting [read more]Tuesday, 3 April 2007 | Sarah Dale-Harris |
| Can't get enough of our posts? Want to hear us in person? Well here's your chance! Dave and Chris will be speaking at the Game Summit in Vancouver on May 4th. Here's more info:
CONFERENCE [read more]Monday, 2 April 2007 | Chris Bennett |
| A New York woman has filed suit for unspecified damages in New York Supreme Court claiming that her infant son suffered a “gran mal seizure” (epilepsy) while playing Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly [read more]Thursday, 29 March 2007 | パブロ・グズマン |
| The UK Court of Appeal recently decided a case involving copyright infringement and video games. Nova Productions Limited had created a computer pool game called "Pocket Money", and claimed [read more]Wednesday, 28 March 2007 | David Spratley |
| You are probably aware that Viacom recently filed a massive lawsuit against Google over unauthorized film clips on YouTube. Viacom says that YouTube has not been proactive in preventing copyright [read more]Wednesday, 21 March 2007 | David Spratley |
| Ahem.
WeeWorld's suit against Nintendo accuses the game maker of trademark infringement - more specifically, it alleges that Nintendo's Mii avatars infinged WeeWorld's trademarks for [read more]Wednesday, 21 March 2007 | Tudor Carsten |
| Anti-videogame activist (and lawyer) Jack Thompson is being pre-emptively sued by Take Two, in a bid by Take Two to thwart Thompson's plans to attempt to have Grand Theft Auto 4 and Manhunt 2 [read more]Tuesday, 20 March 2007 | Dani Lemon |
| Despite Take-Two’s blockbuster hit, the Grand Theft Auto series, Wedbush Morgan (a financial analyst firm), has downgraded Take-Two’s stock to a sell due to poor financial results and [read more]Thursday, 15 March 2007 | Casper Bych |
| You've all heard a lot about video game legislation in the US. It gets passed, it goes to court, then it gets declared unconsitutional.
"What about Canadian video game legislation?" [read more]Wednesday, 14 March 2007 | Chris Bennett |
| Stay tuned for Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.’s (NASDAQ: TTWO) annual general meeting on March 23rd. A group of investors currently holding 46% of the company may take control of the board, [read more]Wednesday, 14 March 2007 | Casper Bych |
| W. L. Crawford, author of a 1998 screenplay entitled “Psi-ops”, has sued Midway alleging that it has taken his plot and characters for its game “Psi-ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy” [read more]Wednesday, 14 March 2007 | パブロ・グズマン |
| n 2005 we reported that Roller Coaster Tycoon developer Chris Sawyer had sued Atari for US$5 million in respect of royalties he claimed Atari owed him. Sawyer also claimed that Atari breached a licensing [read more]Tuesday, 13 March 2007 | Chris Bennett |
| A consumer lawsuit brought in New York against Take-Two Interactive, parent company of Rockstar Games - the publisher of the Grand Theft Auto series - has been stayed in order to allow the parties [read more]Monday, 12 March 2007 | Tudor Carsten |
| The Chinese government is cracking down on the use of virtual money from online games to buy real-world products. According to a government notice, there must be a “strict differentiation between [read more]Thursday, 8 March 2007 | David Spratley |
| The announcement comes in the wake of a $91 million judgment in favor of Immersion in its lawsuit over Sony's DualShock controllers, which Immersion claimed violated Immersion's force feedback [read more]Sunday, 4 March 2007 | Tudor Carsten |
| Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. has agreed to enter into settlement discussions with a view to settling the lawsuit accusing Take-Two of selling its popular Grand Theft Auto video game titles - [read more]Friday, 2 March 2007 | Tudor Carsten |
| The CBC recently reported that Ontario Lottery and Gaming pulled 87 slot machines out of service or physically removed them from casinos following a CBC investigation that uncovered flashing “winning&r [read more]Thursday, 1 March 2007 | Sarah Dale-Harris |
| The award was made by a federal jury in San Diego who arrived at the figure, says Microsoft, by multiplying Windows sales and average PC sales prices worldwide since May 2003
Lucent, which was [read more]Tuesday, 27 February 2007 | Tudor Carsten |
| Gamasutra has an interesting article about the US patent regime and how it does more harm than good, especially in high-tech industries such as video gaming. Note that some of the criticisms raised [read more]Tuesday, 27 February 2007 | David Spratley |
| A flurry of legal activity has erupted over a piece of software called WoWglider. The software (see here) will play your World of Warcraft character for you while you do other things. WoWglider's [read more]Monday, 26 February 2007 | David Spratley |
| Dr. Michael Geist, one of Canada’s pre-eminent technology law scholars, has an interesting entry on his blog about mod chips. One of his readers recently received a cease and desist letter from [read more]Monday, 26 February 2007 | David Spratley |
| Ryan Brant, the founder and former CEO of Take-Two who resigned in October of last year has pleaded guilty to felony criminal charges for his role in backdating stock options and has settled with [read more]Wednesday, 21 February 2007 | Casper Bych |
| Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) has completed its backdating investigation and has found no misconduct by its current top executives. Take-Two investigation revealed certain “impropri [read more]Wednesday, 21 February 2007 | Casper Bych |
| Majesco Entertainment Co. (NASDAQ: CM), the US publisher of such games as Jaws Unleashed, Soldier of Fortune, BloodRayne was issued a going concern warning by its auditors last month.
Such a warning [read more]Wednesday, 21 February 2007 | Casper Bych |
| Activision, having failed to file its earnings in a timely manner for the quarter ended December 31, 2006, has received its second warning by the Nasdaq. The company, which also failed to file its [read more]Monday, 19 February 2007 | Tudor Carsten |
| The International Intellectual Property Alliance, a coalition of US movie, music and software providers (which, most relevantly for our purposes, includes the ESA), has issued a report urging the [read more]Friday, 16 February 2007 | David Spratley |
| Japanese customs and copyright law is being amended to start banning the exportation of pirated software as of July 1, 2007. The current laws bans importation, but not exportation, of pirated software [read more]Sunday, 11 February 2007 | Chris Bennett |
| Apparently the blessing from Pope Benedict XVI wasn’t enough to help officials see things Jack Thompson’s way. The controversial attorney is facing a disciplinary hearing in Florida at [read more]Thursday, 8 February 2007 | Sarah Dale-Harris |
| Online auction giant eBay has banned the trading of in-game property (e.g., characters, items, weapons, player accounts, etc.) from on-line games such as "World of Warcraft". eBay says that [read more]Tuesday, 30 January 2007 | David Spratley |
| Some time ago the South Korean government introduced a bill that would prohibit the real-world purchase and sale of MMO currency (although it would not affect transactions involving other in-game [read more]Monday, 29 January 2007 | David Spratley |
| From the sounds of it, Jack Thompson has found support in the most unlikely of places: the Vatican. In his annual speech delivered from the Vatican on January 24, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI denounced [read more]Friday, 26 January 2007 | Sarah Dale-Harris |
| We reported recently about two video game-related bills that were introduced in New York's State Assembly (see previous post). Those bills have created concern because some people have misunderstood [read more]Friday, 26 January 2007 | David Spratley |
| Blitz: The League, Midway’s Xbox 360 American football game, has been denied classification by Australia’s Office of Film and Literature Classification (the “OFLC”), thereby [read more]Wednesday, 24 January 2007 | Tudor Carsten |
| (This posting was written by Andreas Lober at Schulte Riesenkampff in Germany).
Leading computer gaming producers are under attack in Germany! The so-called "Verbraucherschutzzentrale" [read more]Wednesday, 24 January 2007 | Chris Bennett |
| Gamasutra recently published an article on the best game patents of all time. It's well-written and it's an interesting read. The "now and then" comparison at the end is priceless [read more]Monday, 22 January 2007 | Chris Bennett |
| Two bills dealing with video games were recently introduced in the New York State Assembly. Bill A00547, introduced by Keith Wright, prohibits the sale to minors of certain rated video games [read more]Tuesday, 16 January 2007 | David Spratley |
| ...and more about the thousands of digital flying penises. Guntram Graef, husband of Ailin Graef, better known asSecond Life's real estate mogul Anshe Chung, has withdrawn a complaint filed [read more]Tuesday, 16 January 2007 | Dani Lemon |
| an earlier posting , we reported that Activision and new developer Spark Unlimited were involved in a lawsuit regardingCall of Duty Finest Hour.
Today Gamasutra published a feature [read more]Friday, 12 January 2007 | Chris Bennett |
| Washington D.C. has significantly scaled-back its new video game legislation, called the Consumer Education on Video and Computer Games for Minors Act. Originally the legislation would have prohibited [read more]Thursday, 11 January 2007 | Chris Bennett |
| Fenner Investments, a Texas company, has sued all three console makers for violating its patent for a 'Low-Voltage Joystick Port Interface"?. The patent in question was originally developed [read more]Thursday, 11 January 2007 | Tudor Carsten |
| (This posting was written by Andreas Lober at Schulte Riesenkampff in Germany.)
Publishers' hopes for additional revenues created through product placement in games get a slash back with [read more]Wednesday, 10 January 2007 | Chris Bennett |
| Florida lawyer and anti-video game crusader Jack Thomson has drafted legislation for Massachusetts to block the sale of violent games to minors. This follows a string of similar legislation that [read more]Tuesday, 9 January 2007 | Chris Bennett |
| Second Life publisher Linden Lab has released virtual world's viewer as open source software, and intends to do the same with the server software that runs the virtual world itself. Linden [read more]Tuesday, 9 January 2007 | David Spratley |
| The directors and executive officers of THQ Inc (NASDAQ THQI) are facing a class action lawsuit from its shareholders as a New York law firm is looking for plaintiffs in its anticipated class action [read more]Monday, 8 January 2007 | Casper Bych |
| THQ Inc. (NASDAQ THQI) has received a warning from NASDAQ that it will be delisted unless it files its quarterly earning statement. As reported, THQ is currently conducting an investigation of [read more]Monday, 8 January 2007 | Casper Bych |
| Activision, Inc. (NASDAQ ATVI) failed to file its quarterly earning statement due to its ongoing investigation of its stock option grant practice and has accordingly been issued a delisting warning [read more]Monday, 8 January 2007 | Casper Bych |
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