Aug 28, 2024 Game changer: Managing legal risks in the AI and Web3 powered video gaming revolution By Jennifer Calver Verity Egerton-Doyle Ben Packer Video games have long spearheaded technological innovation, driving advancements that extend far beyond entertainment. The multibillion...
Jul 10, 2024 Games and interactive entertainment legal trends 2024: Mid-year update By Alex Roberts Verity Egerton-Doyle Jennifer Calver At the mid-year point we take stock and refresh our top five trends shaping the legal outlook for games and interactive entertainment....
Jul 09, 2024 Tech Legal Outlook 2024 Mid-Year Update: Driving value from AI By Jennifer Calver Clare Murray Elaine Choo AI is accelerating digital change and it continues to shape the outlook for 2024, bringing disruption and opportunity. But it remains a...
Jul 01, 2024 Scrolling through the UK political parties’ online safety promises By Annabel Sim Ben Packer Tia Demirbas With the election only a few days away, there is no better time to dissect what the UK's political parties are pledging regarding online...
May 14, 2024 Age gate or make it child-safe: The choice facing online platforms in the UK By Ben Packer At some point in 2025, many online platforms in the UK will face a stark choice. Either introduce age assurance technology to stop...
Jan 24, 2024 New Year’s resolutions: Two immediate priorities for online platforms under the UK’s Online Safety Act By Annabel Sim Ben Packer Jeya James Ria Moody +1 more... Show less The Online Safety Act (OSA) - the UK’s flagship law which aims to make the UK the “safest place in the world to be online” - was passed...
Jan 15, 2024 Games and Interactive Entertainment - Legal trends in 2024 By Alex Roberts Verity Egerton-Doyle Video gaming has become the world’s biggest entertainment industry and is at the forefront of harnessing technological advances. Looking...
Jan 04, 2024 A new year for the Tech Sector: Tech Legal Outlook 2024 and Fintech & Payments Legal Outlook 2024 By Clare Murray Jennifer Calver Elaine Choo Laura Onyeocha +1 more... Show less In case you missed it, we launched our annual legal outlook series last month. Our global cross-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional...
Nov 09, 2023 The rubber hits the road: Ofcom launch their first consultations on the OSA 2023 By Georgina Kon Ben Packer Jemma Purslow Ria Moody +1 more... Show less Earlier this year, Dame Melanie Dawes, the CEO of Ofcom, told a Parliamentary Committee that a big moment for the UK’s regulation of...
Oct 26, 2023 The Dawn of a New Era: The UK’s Online Safety Act is here! By Jemma Purslow Ben Packer Georgina Kon It’s been four and a half years in the making but the Online Safety Act – which aims to make the UK the “safest place in the world to be...
Sep 07, 2023 Addressing online harms in real-time: AI meets ingame voice moderation in Call of Duty III By James Phoenix In a recent blogpost, Activision have confirmed they will be using an artificial intelligence tool called ToxMod to automatically...
Jul 19, 2023 A pivotal year for online safety - a look ahead to the key developments to expect in the rest of 2023 and beyond By Ben Packer Jemma Purslow Rebecca Dickie Naomi Ugoh +1 more... Show less There has been much discussion across the globe over the past couple of years regarding the need to improve safety online. 2023 is the...
Jul 12, 2023 The UK’s Online Safety Bill: Ofcom’s updated roadmap to regulation – ready and raring to go? By Ben Packer Jemma Purslow As the UK’s long-awaited flagship online safety legislation makes its way through the final stages of the parliamentary process, Ofcom...
Jun 23, 2023 Gaming Series #5: Computer games – player data and AI By Patrick O'Connell AI advances bring new opportunities Computer games have a long history of using complex algorithms to control NPCs, power chess opponents...
Jun 13, 2023 Gaming series #4: Age verification of children in the EU games sector - not child’s play By Sonia Cissé The games sector is a thriving industry and is hugely popular amongst young people and children. Ask a boy between 8 and 11 years old if...
Jun 06, 2023 Gaming series #3: Not a game of chance – plans to regulate the tech sector in India By Clara Tung Savi Hebbur Following the trend of increased regulation of the digital economy, India, one of the world’s largest online games and social media...