California’s New Privacy Enforcement "Sweep"
You've Been Served: The Legal Effects of Games as a Service (GaaS)
Strong demand for web video bodes well for media investments
The UK Draft Media Bill, which is set to reshape the broadcasting landscape in the UK, is now in the pre-legislative scrutiny phase. In this Part 3 of our series on the Draft Media Bill, we set out the next steps before the...more
In Part 2 of our series on the UK’s Draft Media Bill, we take an in-depth look at Part 2 of the Draft Media Bill, which seeks to update the public service broadcaster (PSB) prominence regime, to keep up with the way TV...more
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation recently published the Measures for the Administration of Internet Advertising (“Measures”), which will take effect on 1 May 2023. The Measures, containing a number of...more
“The NCAA is not above the law.” Those seven words capped Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s searing concurring opinion issued in connection with Monday’s (June 21) unanimous (9-0) U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Alston v. National...more
On October 22, 1939, the first NFL game aired on television. Over 80 years later, the first NFL game was exclusively accessible via a streaming platform. What started as two cameras and eight staffers broadcasting to 1,000...more
On December 21, 2020, Congress passed the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020 ("CASE Act") and a law on penalties for certain digital transmission services that make unauthorized uses of...more
Signed into law on December 27, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 contained more than just COVID-19 relief and federal government funding. The omnibus bill also included two significant pieces of copyright...more
The streaming landscape has experienced its second major shakeup this year with Huya’s merger with DouYu on October 12, 2020. Huya and DouYu are China’s largest streaming platforms, averaging 169 million and 165 million...more
For several months, live sporting events were halted because of the pandemic, yet during this period of uncertainty, the esports ecosystem has been active and thriving. The increased activity has meant substantial growth for...more
On Friday 16 July 2020, the UK communications regulator, Ofcom, published a consultation on video-sharing platform regulation, calling for views by 24 September 2020. ...more
Live adult streaming website CAM4 has reportedly not secured 7TB of users’ information, which may be able to be used for blackmail and identity theft purposes, according to researchers from Safety Detectives....more
What on earth are these players thinking? We now have our third noteworthy example from the last few years of a player live-streaming his coach’s postgame victory speech on a social media platform....more
Back to Basics: A Primer on Intellectual Property Rights in Video Games - In this series, we discuss some of the fundamental concepts of intellectual property law as they relate specifically to video game companies and...more
This article examines the impact of new state laws that have emerged since the Supreme Court's decision in Wayfair, which would permit the collection of sales and use tax on remote transactions. This article specifically...more
On November 6, 2018 a remarkable blow was delivered to online piracy in Greece. On that day, the newly-formed “Committee for Online Copyright Infringement” – informally and more descriptively also known as the Greek...more
Spanski Enters., Inc. v. Telewizja Polska, S.A., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, March 2, 2018. The Carsey-Werner Co., LLC v. British Broadcasting Corp., US District Court for the Central District...more
The results of the 2017 edition of China’s annual online piracy crackdown campaign, called the “Sword Net Action”, were recently published. As we announced earlier, the 2017 crackdown campaign promised to take a heavy hand...more
While the UK Court of Appeal has opened the door for broadband ISP blocking to combat trademark or copyright-infringing activities, the picture in the United States, China and Hong Kong is more complex. ...more
The European Commission has proposed legislation in the EU to provide a uniform legal and competition framework for video-streaming services provided via the Internet. The regime includes changes to advertising, the...more
A jury just awarded Erin Andrews $55 million against the man that filmed her without permission through the peephole of her hotel room and the hotel where they both stayed. The videos of a nude Andrews that were...more
Web-based television streaming services have been dealt another blow in their campaign to transmit large broadcasters’ copyrighted programs. In the latest decision on the issue, a federal judge rejected FilmOn X LLC’s claims...more
Users of Facebook no doubt have seen at least some of their friends post the “copyright” update. In brief, the post states “I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details,” including photos,...more