Nintendo Ordered to Pay $21 Million for Patent Infringement
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property, Microsoft, News, Nintendo, Patent Infringement, Settlement | No Comments »Yahoo reports that Nintendo of America has recently been ordered to pay $21 million in damages to developer Anascape for patent infringement. The award is the result of a federal jury verdict in a suit filed by Anascape in 2006. ...
GA Passes Law Providing Tax Incentives to Game Devs
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Legislation, News, Politics | No Comments »In an effort to increase incentives for entertainment developers to conduct business in Georgia, The Weekly reports that Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue recently signed into law the 2008 Entertainment Industry Investment Act. The bill creates a twenty percent tax ...
GamePolitics Interviews Rep. Terry
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Interview, Legislation, News, Politics | No Comments »Today is particularly busy here at Laws of Play, so most of our updates won't be arriving until later this evening. In the mean time, GamePolitics has posted an exclusive interview with Rep. Lee Terry, co-sponsor of the Video ...
Retail Ratings Enforcement Improving
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in News, Politics | No Comments »In light of the growing controversy surrounding the re-introduction of the Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act and Grand Theft Auto IV, Sean Bersell of the Entertainment Merchants Association ("EMA") forwarded me some welcome news this morning: Retailers have shown "major ...
Blizzard Turns to Copyright to Fight Cheaters
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property, MMORPGs, News | No Comments »In a case that has been described as "pitting distasteful gaming behavior against an unsavory over-assertion of copyrights," Blizzard Entertainment and Vivendi SA seek damages against software company MDY Industries for alleged tortious interference with contract and secondary copyright infringement. ...
Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act Redux
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Legislation, News, Politics | 1 Comment »Variety and ABC News report that Representatives Lee Terry (R-Neb.) and Jim Matheson (D-Utah) introduced the "Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act" to the House floor today. The bill, H.R. 5990, was subsequently referred to the House Committee on Energy ...
GTA IV Ad Controversy Roundup
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Jack Thompson, New Complaint, News, Politics, Rockstar | 1 Comment »The Internet has been rife with Grand Theft Auto IV stories as of late. It seems as though any website with a merely tangential relationship to video games has mentioned Rockstar's blockbuster and many gaming-centric sites have turned into ...
San Diego GOP Chairman: Video Game Pirate?
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Crime, Hilarious, Intellectual Property, News, Politics, Stupid Politics | 7 Comments »According to a lengthy article posted at The Raw Story, San Diego Republican Chairman and head of the state party's budget committee Tony Krvaric is co-founder of Fairlight, one of the world's largest and oldest software cracking rings. Krvaric, ...
GTA Does Lead to Crime? UPS Employees Caught Stealing
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Crime, News, Rockstar | No Comments »Ben Kuchera over at Ars Technica reports that a surprising number of UPS workers are being fired for stealing copies of Rockstar's [tag]Grand Theft Auto IV[/tag]. Despite the collective cries of [tag]gamers[/tag] that GTA doesn't lead to real [tag]crime[/tag], ...
Man, Senior Arrested in Video Game Scam
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Crime, Fraud, Hilarious, News | 10 Comments »Frank Buchanan, 30, and his mother Dorothy Mae Buchanan, 68, were recently arrested in Minnesota for engaging a in scam that defrauded retailers out of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise. Buchanan allegedly bought and returned nearly 200 video ...
