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News of the Week; May 24, 2017
GAMES Does Valve really own Dota? A jury will decide: Federal court case could hinge on 2004 forum post granting “open source” license. Jury to decide whether Valve owns DOTA: Two games studios challenge the company’s ownership to DOTA Valve’s ownership of Dota 2 is set to be decided by a jury Why Texas may have lost its […]
News of the Week; May 17, 2017
GAMES Judge Explores Boundaries of Authorship With Nods to ‘Star Wars,’ Spike Lee and ‘Love Actually’: Modded video games get likened to movies in a tour de force of legal writing. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., and Valve Corporation v. Lilith Games (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. And uCool, Inc. (U.S. Dist. Ct., Northern District of California) ZeniMax extends […]
News of the Week; May 10, 2017
GAMES Russian Who Played Pokemon Go in Church Is Convicted of Inciting Hatred Diego Maradona settles with Konami over likeness dispute: As part of the settlement, the legendary player will sign a deal this month to promote Pro Evolution Soccer Bethesda Trademark Bullying Results In Indie Game Adding A Whole Letter To Its Name, But […]
News of the Week; May 3, 2017
GAMES ZeniMax pressures Prey for the Gods devs to make a name change Prey developer: Go ahead, use Steam refunds to demo our game – Colantonio – “Steam players can just return the game” before playing for two hours. Nintendo issues unsurprising take down notice for fan-made Zelda: “Breath of the NES” developer publishes email from NoA attorney […]
News of the Week; April 26, 2017
GAMES Two-year jail sentence for teen who hacked Xbox: Convict carried out more than 1.7m cyber attacks and enabled further crimes globally Teenager behind Microsoft and Sony hacks jailed for two years: “I have a duty to the public who are worried about this,” says judge. Creator of DDoS program used against Minecraft and RuneScape sentenced to prison Game […]