This is a guest post from Jas Purewal, a games lawyer and author of games law blog Gamer/Law. You can follow him on Twitter. Trade marks are generating a lot of heat in the games industry right...

Last week, I received a letter saying that a House of Commons Select Committee had appropriated the copyright to my written submission to the enquiry into the government’s decision not to enact tax relief for the games...

A couple of months ago, I asked if I should contribute to the Scottish Parliament’s enquiry into video game tax breaks. I decided to contribute, and sent in a submission explaining why I opposed them. You can...

You may remember that a pastiche of Jay-Z’s Empire State of Mind based on the Welsh town of Newport hit the web a couple of weeks ago, got incredibly popular and then was promptly shut down by...

Regular readers of GAMESbrief will know that I think a lot about copyright. Recently, this quote from John Gilmore leaped out at me: “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” John is a founder...

The Newport State of Mind parody video has been phenomenally successful. A parody of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ Empire State of Mind (original embedded below), it is funny, ironic and a great tribute to the 2009 track....

The French constitutional court has ruled the so-called Hadopi law illegal. The law would have allowed a government commission, rather than a court, to disconnect people who repeatedly downloaded copyrighted content over the Internet. The constitutional court,...