The afternoon’s tweets from IBC’s “Protecting & Exploiting Content in Video Games”. Many of these (but not all of them) were tweeted, as I suddenly got access to the web. Games industry gets 35% of revenues from...

Lawyers like to keep things close to their chest, and a recent IBC conference on videogames and law was no exception. We were in a subterranean chamber with no access to Twitter. So here are the key...

The social games space is full of lawsuits. Mob Wars creator David Maestri left SGN to launch the game himself, so they sued him. They settled and Maestri then sued Zynga (creator of Mafia Wars) and Playdom...

The games market is changing fast, and it’s hard to keep up with the legal implications. That’s why IBC is running a conference on “Protecting & Exploiting Content in Video Games” on 29th September 2009. Speakers include...

The Chinese Ministries of Culture and Commerce announced on Monday that the trading of virtual currency for real world cash is to be banned outright, in the name of reducing illegal gambling and money laundering. From the...

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,...

Bloomberg reports that the creditor committee that was suing Mark Thomas over his investment in Midway have settled. Sumner Redstone, the majority shareholder in Midway, sold his 87% stake to Mark Thomas for $100,000 in November 2008....