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Why going after The Banner Saga was the right decision for King
King, the people behind the phenomenally successful Candy Crush Saga, have been in the news for opposing the application by Stoic, an indie game developer, to trademark the name The Banner Saga, the title of the forthcoming...
- Posted 11 years ago
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Can you sell second hand games legally? Should you?
Jas Purewal, an interactive entertainment lawyer at Osborne Clarke and writer of Gamer/Law, takes a look at the fraught question of the legality of second hand sales of games. The second hand sale of digital content (including...
- Posted 11 years ago
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Would it be good for Indies if EA wins against Zynga?
The big news of last week was that EA had sued Zynga for copyright infringement in The Ville, alleging it had substantially copied The Sims Social. I instinctively want EA to win. It seems likely it is a...
- Posted 12 years ago
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Dear Jas 2: Respecting intellectual property
Video games law expert Jas Purewal answers the question: How much do I have to change my game for it not to infringe another game?
- Posted 13 years ago
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Indie Legals 1.01: Starting an indie game company
A 2009 Nesta report suggested that the creative industries were capable of growing at twice the rate of the economy as a whole. The closure of Blackrock and Bizarre has seen yet more developers join the already...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Is Zynga breaching the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading regulations?
Last week, I wrote a post about a new big monetisation banner that popped up when I returned to Zynga’a Cityville. I wondered if it was a last-ditch attempt to get me to spend money (although I...
- Posted 13 years ago