Games Industry Law Summit

The registration for Legal Challenge VIII, this year's edition of games industry moot court, is now complete. Please welcome the competitors: 👏 Dr. K. IP 👏 Flamingos On Fire 👏 Fus Ro Law 👏 Jindal Global Law School  👏 Legal Shade 👏 Legal Triplets 👏 Level Up  👏 Link's Arraignment 👏 LTLV (TalTech) 👏 Nah We'd Win 👏 Otaku Tyrant 👏 SSMP Bruins Team 👏 Super Marzaria Bros. 👏 The Advocacy Avengers: RRP 👏 The Metaversed 👏 Tri(al) Wizards 👏 Twin LawGeeks 👏 Twin Winx 👏 Twinners Take It All 👏 Ultraviolet Squirrel 👏 Zot Zot Zz'Rot Portal Between their members, these teams fly 20 different flags: 🇧🇾🇧🇷🇨🇦🇨🇳🇨🇾🇨🇿🇪🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇳🇮🇩🇮🇷🇱🇻🇱🇹🇲🇽🇵🇱🇹🇷🇦🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸 Here's the details of the 3rd, and final, group of teams – 💥 Twinners Take It All Antonín Dvořák 🇨🇿🇩🇪 Julian Petrat 🇩🇪 Paul Haverkamp 🇩🇪 Mentor: Jasmin Dolling (Bucerius Law School) Association: Forschungsstelle Games-Recht der Bucerius Law School 💥 Link's Arraignment Bahar Tarighi 🇺🇸 Peter Steinberg 🇺🇸 Jake Anderson 🇺🇸 Mentor: Riley Russell (Kojima Productions) Association: Video Game Bar Association 💥 SSMP Bruins Team Amalia Kurniaputri 🇺🇸🇮🇩 Grace Xing 🇺🇸🇨🇳 Mentor: Anastasiia (Stacey) Chuvaieva (MSK) Associated with: University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law 💥 The Advocacy Avengers: RRP Raghav Goyal 🇮🇳 Priyanka Jaiswal 🇮🇳 Ramya Ramkumar 🇮🇳 💥 Legal Shade Rasheeda A. 🇺🇸 Mia S. 🇺🇸 Kevin D. 🇺🇸🇩🇪 Associated with: City University of New York School of Law 💥 Level Up Zofia Małaczewska 🇵🇱 Stanisław Miliński 🇵🇱 💥 LTLV (TalTech) Akvilė Svidraitė 🇱🇹🇪🇪 Valerija Angerman 🇱🇻🇪🇪 💥 Otaku Tyrant Eva Rian 🇺🇸 NEXT STOP: Submissions for Claimant, due on January 31st. #mootcourt #gamesindustry #intellectualproperty #videogames

A very warm welcome to Chrysostomides Advocates & Legal Consultants, who return as our conference partner in 2025! 🇨🇾 Cyprus is a region that punches well above its weight, as far as games industry hubs are concerned. We spoke to George Mountis, Evelina Georgiades and Aristovoulos Damianou about the reasons behind the explosive growth of the island's games community: what makes it work, and how does the firm is adapt to the expansion of the cluster? #gamesindustry #videogames #cyprus #κύπρος #intellectualproperty

🍵 We're pleased to introduce another conference partner of 2025: ADVANT, a multi-regional alliance of 🇩🇪 ADVANT Beiten, 🇫🇷 ADVANT Altana and 🇮🇹 ADVANT Nctm! We spoke to Dr. Andreas Lober and Luca Guidobaldi to catch up on what's happening at their firms –> #gamesindustry #gameslaw #intellectualproperty #madeinitaly

Happy to announce the 2nd group of teams registered for Legal Challenge – a warm welcome to all the competitors, and a shout-out to all the mentors who found the opportunity to guide with these teams! 💥 Jindal Global Law School Hrishabh Daga 🇮🇳 Simran Kaushal 🇮🇳 Kshithi Shetty 🇮🇳 Mentor: Shreevardhan Dalmia (Jindal Global Law School) Association: Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) 💥 Legal Triplets Anastasiya Pyshnaya-Muryna 🇧🇾 Sophia Evmenova 🇧🇾 Palina Filiptsova 🇧🇾 Mentor: Kirill Laptev (Anischenko Laptev) 💥 Playful Impact Noland Johnson 🇺🇸 Mentor: Brandon J. Huffman (Odin Law and Media) Association: Georgia State University College of Law 💥 Twin Winx Kristina Vainilovich 🇺🇳 Andrey Rutkovskiy 🇺🇳 Mentor: Aliaksei Shantora (Banuba Group) 💥 Ultraviolet Squirrel Trivani Shahi 🇺🇸 Mentor: Marissa B. Lewis (MSK) #mootcourt #gameslaw #gamesindustry #intellectualproperty

☀️ Morning, people! Happy to announce another conference partner of 2025: Osborne Clarke – a firm that is synonymous with the games industry itself! We spoke to 🇩🇪 Konstantin (Konni) Ewald and 🇩🇪🇺🇸 Felix Hilgert about what's happening at the firm, and what sort of work their games team does these days for the industry clients –––> #gamesindustry #gameslaw #spielerecht

2025 has already arrived to Tokyo and Shanghai, and will soon hit Europe. Happy New Year, dear friends, and may you get to work with some of the most exceptional people in the coming year! Here's the last issue of our long-form newsletter (operated on an open source platform, and thus safe from the ads or takeovers 😜), with a brief summary of what we've seen, and what we expect in 2025: https://lnkd.in/d6BnJ7Nb #gamesindustry #videogames #gameslaw

Morning, counsels! Thrilled to announce the first group of teams registered for this season of Legal Challenge, including their venerable mentors and the associated schools & firms – welcome to the moot! 💥 Zot Zot Zz'Rot Portal Yucy J. 🇨🇳🇨🇦🇺🇸 Bryan Perez 🇲🇽🇺🇸 Jake Bulf 🇺🇸 Mentor: Dan Nabel (Riot Games) Association: University of California, Irvine School of Law 💥 The Metaversed Héloïse Lauret 🇫🇷 Chaitanya Pandey 🇮🇳 Alisha I. 🇬🇧 Mentor: Peter Lewin (Wiggin) Association: Queen Mary University of London School of Law 💥 Dr. K. IP Pavlos Dekatris 🇨🇾 Ada Athanasiadou 🇨🇾 Aya Sousak 🇨🇾 Mentor: Darya Firsava (Wargaming) Association: Chrysostomides Advocates & Legal Consultants 💥 Tri(al) Wizards Devvrat Joshi 🇮🇳 Angad Makkar 🇮🇳 Akshat Agrawal 🇮🇳 Mentor: Himanshu Bagai (Saikrishna & Associates) Association: Saikrishna & Associates 💥 Twin LawGeeks Stanislau Matsiulevich 🇺🇳 Aliaksandr Zvantsou 🇺🇳 Mentor: Palina Yaromenka (Wargaming) 💥 Super Marzaria Bros. Parmida Enkeshafi 🇺🇸🇮🇷🇦🇪 Abla Belhachmi 🇺🇸 Nathaniel Kazlow 🇺🇸 Mentor: Josh Weigensberg (Pryor Cashman) Association: Pryor Cashman 💥 Flamingos On Fire Julia Szcześniak 🇵🇱 Filip Piotrowicz 🇵🇱 Julia Zuzanna Biedrzycka 🇵🇱 Mentor: Monika Gebel (Tripledot Studios) Association: Uniwersytet Warszawski / University of Warsaw 💥 Fus Ro Law Daniel Rosenn 🇺🇸 Maurice Naim 🇺🇸 Mentor: Simon Pulman (Pryor Cashman) 💥 Nah We'd Win Tytus Czarnota 🇵🇱 Ahmet Ufuk Yener 🇹🇷 Gabriel Lins 🇧🇷 Association: Erasmus School of Law The registration closes on January 17th, with the first submission due on January 24th. The clarifications to the case have now been published on the website, all links in the comment section below. #mootcourt #gamesindustry #gameslaw

☀️ Good morning, counsels! With this post we begin to introduce the conference partners of our 2025 season. We start in New York, with Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, where we caught up with 🇺🇸 Sean F. Kane and 🇺🇸 S. Gregory Boyd, the founders of the firm's Interactive Entertainment Group – #gameslaw #gamesindustry #videogames

💥 Happy New Year, people! Whatever other holidays your region normally celebrates, this special occasion will make us all add a new number, '2025', to the drafts created from the next week onwards. Our community is spread across 50+ countries, our concerns and priorities are very diverse, but one thing brings us all together: the spirit of collaboration. Here's a glass of (0%) champagne to everyone who helped their peers in 2024 – whether through a referral, an advice, or a shared experience. Thank you! Thanks to those who answered all the "FW: Have you ever done this?" emails and responded to all the "Quick call now, possible?" messages, the best legal practices of the international games industry continue to cross the bridges between the studios, and the regions. And we all win by becoming a bit smarter, a bit faster – without taking the risks that we would have had to take, were we in a less generous community. Thanks for sharing, thanks for caring, and thanks for being a bunch of wonderful people! In the coming year, we will do our best to deliver two great conferences – and one awesome moot court season – to give you a plenty of new data points, insights, and social space for making new connections and catching up with your peers. Have a wonderful year ahead, and see you around! // Your Summit team

The registration for Legal Challenge VIII, a moot court dedicated exclusively to the matters of the international games industry, continues: 13/12/2024 – last day to submit clarification questions 17/01/2025 – last day to register your team We already see a healthy mix of law school students and law firm associates among the initial applications – thanks to the community, we managed to reach a broader range of law schools in EU, in South America, and in the US. We hope to see one of the strongest moots this year, with a very broad representation of different regions! Details of the case (this year, it's about cloning & unfair competition): https://lnkd.in/gNK7ZqVg #gamesindustry #videogames #mootcourt