What happens when you try to mash up lawyers and video games? Sometimes you get the misadventures of Phoenix Wright (who, by the way, would be disbarred if he practiced that way in America). But on April 21st, you get the 2011 panel on Legal and Business Trends in the Video Game Industry hosted by [...]

Valve is making a sequel to the hit Defense of the Ancients (DotA) and, naturally, wants to trademark the word mark for this game. Normally a simple affair, except Valve did not make the original. Neither did Blizzard. DotA is a community developed game mod and based on Blizzard’s Warcraft 3. So who should own [...]

Good Old Games (“GoG”) gave many of its users a bit of a scare in October when it shut down service in a marketing ploy to debut their redesigned storefront. As one of the few significant publishers to release games completely DRM free, their short lived disappearance begged the question: what happens to my game [...]

We here at AYLABTU are  happy to relay news of the launch of the Video Game Bar Association on February 8th. As scholars in the law of the game, and hopefully one day members of the association, we are encouraged to see the continued positive growth and development in the industry. AM Daily reports that [...]

Last July, Blizzard introduced its Real Id plan for its battle.net service, which essentially forced users to disclose their real names in order to use the forums. In the face of intense pressure, Blizzard redacted the plan within days of announcement. The threat to personal privacy in online gaming, however, is far from over. In October, a [...]