Video Games
Our Video Game lawyers have more than 40 years of collective experience advising the world’s most innovative entertainment, advertising, and technology companies. As the industry evolves across next-gen consoles, cloud gaming, mobile platforms, and AI-driven content, we provide strategic legal guidance to protect IP, navigate complex regulations, and support film, TV, and other media adaptations.
The video game industry is a dynamic global sector blending creativity, technology, and commerce. From blockbuster console titles and mobile hits to VR experiences and esports, opportunities—and legal complexities—are growing. Our Video Game team offers practical, business-focused counsel to help clients protect ideas, grow businesses, and stay competitive. Led by industry leaders S. Gregory Boyd and Sean F. Kane—authors of Video Game Law: Everything You Need to Know About Legal and Business Issues in the Game Industry and inductees into the Games Industry Law Summit Hall of Fame—our team combines deep legal expertise with firsthand industry insight. We understand not only the law but also how games are created, marketed, and monetized.
Our team’s collective decades of experience allow us to provide tailored, strategic legal solutions for the ever-changing global video game industry.
We represent a wide range of industry participants, including:
- Game publishers, developers, and distributors, from AAA studios to indie innovators
- Media and entertainment companies exploring cross-platform opportunities
- Esports leagues, teams, and tournament organizers
- Platform holders and technology providers
- Creative talent including animators, writers, directors, voice actors, and musicians
- Celebrities, influencers, and streamers entering interactive entertainment
- Consumer brands and advertising agencies
- Investors, venture funds, and strategic partners
- Hardware and peripheral manufacturers
We offer a full spectrum of legal services tailored to the video game industry:
- Strategic Business Planning: Guidance on building businesses around IP, expanding into film and TV, and leveraging trademarks, copyrights, and publicity rights.
- Contracts & Agreements: Drafting and negotiating development, publishing, distribution, licensing, platform, esports, talent, employment, corporate, and user agreements.
- Intellectual Property: Protecting and enforcing patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and publicity rights.
- Financing & Investment: Advising on mergers, acquisitions, capital raises, equity deals, joint ventures, and revenue-sharing models.
- Brand Integration & Partnerships: Structuring cross-promotional deals that generate revenue and deepen player engagement.
- Advertising, Marketing & Monetization: Guidance on in-game monetization, loot boxes, digital currencies, influencer campaigns, and compliance with global advertising laws.
- Content Moderation & Online Safety: Advising on community standards, anti-harassment measures, and online safety compliance.
- Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management: Navigating privacy, consumer protection, advertising, and gambling laws.
- Dispute Resolution & Litigation: Representing clients in negotiations, arbitration, and litigation over contracts, IP, employment, and business disputes.
- Content Review & Ratings: Ensuring compliance with ESRB, PEGI, and other ratings bodies.
- Data Privacy & Cybersecurity: Drafting robust data policies, ensuring GDPR/CCPA compliance, and responding to breaches.
- Emerging Issues & New Technologies: Advising on blockchain games, NFTs, AI content, and the metaverse.