UK games industry body UKIE invited me to speak at their inaugural Thursday@3 series of events last week. This first event was on the subject of funding games, so I decided to talk about two areas of games finance which have been much underrated recently: project finance and public sources of funding. Have a look… Continue reading Project finance and public funding in games
Month: April 2012
Game cloning: recent legal developments
My employer, Osborne Clarke, held its biannual Interactive Entertainment Legal Forum (a networking event and training session for inhouse games lawyers from UK and Europe) last month. I spoke about the difficult topic of game cloning, non-literal copying and recent legal developments regarding it. What actually is the law about game cloning in the UK… Continue reading Game cloning: recent legal developments
Games Law Round-Up: February and March 2012
Sorry – this is two months’ worth of games law news updates, since GDC got in the way of finalising the February update. Still, what a couple of months it’s been! Here we go…