Content creators from various parts of the world of entertainment are currently fighting for our free time and attention. Among them, more and more often, recently, are the streamers, whose online broadcasts people tend to choose instead of VOD, podcast or traditional television. What do we know about those people, what is their real audience […]
Last week (December 10, 2019) I had the pleasure to speak at a conference called The Rise Of Esports Investments Poland & CEE. It was the first conference dedicated to esports-oriented investors and businesses organised by the Esport & Gaming Forum together with Santander Bank Polska. I was asked to talk about the legal perspective […]
Coming back from this year’s edition of the Esport & Gaming Forum, the biggest annual conference in Poland concentrating on business aspects of professional gaming, I was amazed by how many new companies become actively engaged in the esports community each year. It obviously has to do with the growth rate of this market, seeing […]
The dust has not yet settled after the Game Industry Conference 2019 in Poznań, but we already have more exciting news for you! At the turn of April and May 2020 Anna Kobylańska and Krzysztof Muciak will represent KL&M Law / LegalPLay at the 6th international Games Industry Law Summit in beautiful Vilnius, Lithuania. The […]
Yesterday evening I returned to Warsaw from the Game Industry Conference 2019 in Poznań. It was the first big event that I participated in under the banner of LegalPlay. I had a blast socialising with many interesting people from the game development industry, participating in great lectures and panels and – of course – visiting […]
We are happy to inform that Krzysztof will be featured as a speaker at the Game Industry Conference (GIC) 2019 in Poznań, Poland (17-20 October 2019)! Krzysztof will give a presentation on remuneration models in game development agreements. If you are in Poznań and want to say hello, invite Krzysztof on GIC’s MeetToMatch or drop […]
We are finally online! After long months of planning, preparation and hard conceptual and technical work, we officially give you LegalPlay! LegalPlay is a specialised brand of the video game law practice of Kobylańska Lewoszewski Mednis, a new technologies law firm based in Warsaw, Poland. For quite some time we have been trying to come […]
A few days ago the European gaming community was electrified with a news story from France. On 17 September a French court issued a ruling, referred to as „monumental” or „landmark” by some commentators (including the plaintiff), in the case of a French consumer protection association UFC-Que Choisir brought against Valve, the operator of Steam. […]
To start off the blog with an exciting topic, I thought I would summarise the current approach of Polish authorities regarding loot boxes in video games. However, before I do, I will start with a brief overview of the issue from the European perspective. To be sure, those shiny crates with random game-enhancing goodies for […]