Sponsored by McMillan LLP, Fasken Martineau and UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law, the Video Game Bar Association Summit North is coming to Allard Hall on October 12th and 13th. The Video Game Bar Association connects lawyers from across the globe who act in the interactive, gaming and social media space, holding annual events in LA, Germany and now, with this inaugural session, Vancouver! The summit is a day-and-a-half chock full of great courses and networking, discussing topics of interest to legal practitioners (and potential practitioners!) in the video game law, interactive entertainment, and social media space. The VGBA is bringing a number of prominent speakers from developers and publishers (like EA and Capcom), governments (like US Dept. of Commerce and Innovation, Sciecne and Economic Development Canada), industry associations (Electronic Software Association Canada), and law firms (including McMillan, Faskens and Blakes). Topics to be covered this year include: trade secrets, privacy, employment/immigration, the game business, contracts and negotiations, M&A, litigation, eSports and AR/VR/MR. A full schedule can be found at http://vgbasummit.org where you can learn more about the course and its topics.
Because UBC has graciously donated space to host the conference, the conference wanted to invite everyone in the Video Game Law course to attend! For students in Video Game Law, the course fee of C$300 will be WAIVED (yes, you read that correctly). You will still need to attend our class on Friday morning, but there is great content both Thursday afternoon (and a social mixer) as well as Friday afternoon that you are most welcome to attend. Please contact ryan.black@mcmillan.ca if you want to register.
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