Gaming and Games in UK Law
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Weekly Web Wrap-Up: May 17, 2016
Welcome to Sheppard Mullin’s Weekly Web Wrap-Up, a quick list of the past week’s top news in the social media, gaming, and virtual goods and currencies industries curated by Social Media & Games Te...... ... -Up, a quick list of the past weeks top news in the social media, gaming, and virtual goods and currencies industries curated by Social Media & ... ...
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Will Facebook Become a Key Player in U.S. Online Gaming?
Arguably the most popular social media platform in the world, Facebook appears poised to expand its ever-growing empire into the online gaming industry. Rumors circulated in early December 2011 tha...... ... Facebook is no stranger to online gaming. For some time now, it has offered its users the option of playing online games for Facebook credits as an alternative to real money. Earlier this year, Facebook changed its advertising policies, allowing online gambling ... ...
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UK Data Protection Regulator ICO Flexes Power to Impose Fine - Sony Fined for Data Breach
Introduction - On 24 January 2013, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) served Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited (“Sony”) with a monetary penalty of £250,000 following a ser...... ... This platform is the online element of Sonys PlayStation mobile gaming products andgaming console, allowing customers to chat and play against ... ...
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What Are the Rules of the Advergame in the UK?
Advergames are online video games that are created in order to promote a brand, product or organization by immersing a marketing message within the game. They are typically accessed via an organiza......Advergames are online video games that are created in order to promote a brand, product or organization by ... The concept of advertising via gaming has been around since the 1980s and the term advergame was included in ... ...
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Gaming Operators To Pay In Budget; Gaming Duties To Rise By 25% Deloitte Outlines The Gambling Tax Changes In The 2007 Budget Report
... ... VAT on peer-to-peer gaming: ... Games impacted: online poker, online bingo ... There is currently a discrepancy between the treatment of certain types of income when it is received by a ... ...
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CMA Blocks Microsoft's Acquisition Of Activision Blizzard; 'Game Over' For Behavioral Remedies?
... ... blocked what would otherwise have been the largest deal in the ... gaming industry to date. The decision highlights several important ... trends, ... to download and run games locally on their devices, cloud gaming ... services dispense with the need ... ...
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Mission Complete: How Microsoft Rescued Its Activision Merger From The CMA's Veto
... ... prohibition - after all, in the world of video games, you can ... always play another round. Here we discuss how the CMA ... market for cloud gaming, which allows users to stream games over ... the internet without ... ...
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Deloitte Comments On The Video Gaming Announcement In Today's Budget
...Rupert Clark from Deloitte's gaming team commenting on today's video gaming tax break announcement: ... "Supporting the video games industry in the UK through this new tax break is great news both for the industry and the wider economy. The UK has an international reputation for ... ...
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Legal Action Raises Debate Over IP In Video Games
... ... The legal dispute between Ikea and Ziggy raises important ... questions about intellectual property rights in the gaming ... Video games often incorporate real-world elements, such as brand ... names, logos, objects and store layouts, into their games in order ... to ... ...
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Netflix: Streamer's Expansion Into Gaming Is 'Natural Extension'
...This recent BBC article has turned its focus towards Netflix ... move to increasingly start offering video games through the popular ... streaming platform. Although it has been possible to play games on ... the Netflix platform since November 2021, the ... ...
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