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9/13/23 Gamma Law Free Zoom Seminar Discussion in Japanese
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Gamma Law held a Zoom seminar on NBA Collective NFT “Top Shot”, legal issues on blockchain game business models, players and platforms.

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GLVM: What’s the Most Important Part of a Content License Agreement?
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What’s the most important part of a content license agreement? Is it the liability sections? The royalty provisions? The reps/warranties?

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Anatomy of a Pre-Sale, Part 1: Introduction
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A pre-sale is technically a licensing of certain specified distribution rights for a film. Simply, a producer conveys some of his rights to a distributor, who is responsible for marketing and releasing the film to the public to generate revenue.

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Hollywood Goes Corporate — Show Me The Money
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The last two decades have seen epic centralization of power in the media, particularly in the film industry. A handful of conglomerates now own all the major studios, with publicly traded parent companies, broadcast and cable channel siblings, distribution subsidiaries, and at each respective helm, a seasoned and polished corporate executive. It…

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China’s Golden Era of Film
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As Chinese consumers decide how to allocate their growing disposable incomes, movies are attracting increasingly large audiences, to the benefit of the American film industry. In the past five years, the number of movie theaters in China has doubled to almost 11,000, with several thousand more expected to open by 2013. Chinese…

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Let the Music Play … Games
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Over the last three decades, scores of musicians have experimented with and elevated tiny blips of electronic noise to chart topping records. But the concert hall of bleeps and bloops does not only host the likes of Daft Punk, Justice, and the Blue Man Group, this stage also belongs to video game…

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A Fistful of Buckazoids: Digital Currencies
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The value of the dollar has certainly dipped in the past few years, but there’s a number of new currencies that might have investors clamoring for a more digital kind of coin.

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I Now Pronounce You Man and Avatar
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It’s nearly Valentine’s day and love is in the virtual air. A million questions abound: Will he ask me to go on that raid with him in World of Warcraft? Can someone with only a +2 bonus to Charisma really charm her way into a date? How long will it take to…

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Video Games as Art — Legally!
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Video games are now art. Legally. The conspicuous categorization (that is, now, the “legalization”) of video games as art has been widely reported and debated, but never as intensely as last week, when the United States Supreme Court struck down a California law banning sales of violent video games to children. The…