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I was in the Bay Area Tuesday to give a talk at WSGR’s Palo Alto office on recent developments in interactive entertainment law.  My practice focuses in large part on helping game companies develop and commercialize products, and the legal issues involved in making games are part of what makes me love my job.

Since I took the effort to pull together my thoughts for the lecture, I thought I would try to cover some of the same material here on the blog.  I plan to break out the segments of the presentation into a series of posts over then next few weeks.  New posts will be in the “Law” category on this site.  Clicking this link will take you to a page that has all the posts in the category.

This first post is just a preview of the topics I plan to cover. Think of it as the table of contents, if such a thing exists on the Internets.

Legal Issues in Interactive Entertainment (update on video game law):

• Part One:  Growth in the Interactive Entertainment Industry.
• Part Two:  Convergence of Games with More Traditional Media.
• Part Three: Virtual Property Law.
• Part Four:  On-Line Community Management.
• Part Five:  User Generated Content Issues.
• Part Six:  Talent Issues.  Guild or No Guild.
• Part Seven:  Game Specific IP Issues.
• Part Eight:  New Revenue Streams for Game Companies.
  
• Part Nine:  Unsolicited Submissions.
• Part Ten:  Development and Publishing Agreements.
• Part Eleven:  Gambling, Lotteries, Sweepstakes and Contests.
• Part Twelve:  In-Game Currency Issues.
• Part Thirteen:  Content Regulation and Freedom of Speech.
• Part Fourteen:  Merchandising.

If there are topics that you are interested in that are not covered here, please leave a comment, or shoot me an email at submissions@thisistech.com.