Well, actually, it’s a new lawsuit. There are numerous internet sites reporting Games Workshop suing Curse (runs Website Warhammer Alliance).
The report from the prolific blog Massively… my favorite quote, “a litany of allegations including cybersquatting, unfair competition, dilution (of the IP), and more”. They link to the complaint here.
Warhammer Alliance response here, or you can [...]
Infinity Ward Developers sue Activision (for unpaid royalties)
From Lawsuits and Settlements Web site (talking about the California state law factor) ; and story from the Vancouver Sun.
A slightly different take…The Lawsuit and Public Relations, from Gamasutra. Other lawsuits, after the jump….
Zynga vs PlayerAuctions (From Web site IP trademark lawyer)
Zynga Game Network, Inc. v. Playerauctions.com, CV10-2576 CBM (C.D. Cal. 2010). (Zynga says that Player Auctions is making money from their work. We’ll keep up with this one.) Others to keep up with after the jump.
Tracking your virtual character to track YOU!
Pixels and Policy has a great article about using a guy’s WOW profile to arrest him in real life. Extraordinary piece of reporting about interaction between police and WOW support system.
This is a link to a somewhat related story where Blizzard (WOW-maker) was sued for the way the [...]
Sony is being sued again, this time it is a visually-impaired gamer who does not feel he is getting proper support from the gaming company. You can also read a report at Gamepolitics.Here are a couple of articles with different viewpoints of the case.
From the Website Ablegamers (for challenged gamers of all types)
This comment [...]
According to multiple sources, this article by Pr-inside reports that a US shareholder sues China’s the9 and executives. Here is the full original story on Reuters that they refer to. The main focus is that “A U.S. shareholder sued Chinese online role-playing game developer The9 (NCTY.O) [...]
For the second time in as many weeks, a major company is the litigant in a class action. The consumer (Kennedy) alleges the PS3 firmware update 3.0 harmed his system, and that the followup update 3.01 further damaged his PS3 by affecting his Blu-Ray drive on the PS3. Here are the major game [...]
I know you’re thinking, where’s the Video Game lawyer money?
The beginnings of these cases are all so celebrated, so noteworthy, posted on the game sites, the news sites, but where are the awards?
Recently, retired NFL players were awarded a $28 million judgment, according to the legal newsletter on JDSupra.
Here is the Justia page of [...]
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