Delivered at Casual Connect Eastern Europe, November 2014
Two lawyers and one business development specialist will discuss the risk zones where the games industry currently sees more legal action than usual, from age restrictions imposed in some territories to changing advertising rules, limits on in-game transactions, sales to minors, ownership of UGC, and tax consequences of crowd-funding campaigns, all the way to joint ownership of IP between several people in a remote-structured team as well as SPV structures used by independent studios to attract external investment without compromising their ownership of the main brand/intellectual property. You will not find a solution to every problem, but you will come away with knowledge of which risks to address before jumping into the international market with your new product/venture!
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