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VR lawyer

Collateral Damage: Real Legal Risks for Virtual Reality Companies

1000 648 David Hoppe

Virtual Reality devices are opening a new universe of possibilities for hardware makers and application developers. However, these opportunities may lead to new and still unexplored liabilities. In particular, the…

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copyright lawyer

How Strong is that Copyright in Your Virtual Reality Content?

1000 648 David Hoppe

While patent law usually comes to mind first when considering how best to protect virtual reality technology, copyright law may provide protection to virtual content. However, the strength of the…

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media lawyer

Licensing Professionals and Fans Converge at 2015 Anime Expo in LA

1000 648 David Hoppe

More than 90,000 attended the 24th annual Anime Expo (AX), North America’s largest Japanese pop culture convention, held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California from July…

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media lawyer

Music Streaming Comes to Japan; But Will it Last?

1000 648 David Hoppe

Two weeks ago, Line Corp.’s, the operators of Japan’s most popular messaging app, launched an in-app music streaming service called Line Music. Japan is the second-largest music market in the…

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video games lawyer

2015: The Year We Get Loading Screen Mini-Games Back

1000 648 David Hoppe

Onechanbara, it is safe to say, is not a fondly remembered game. Released on Xbox 360 in early 2009 (late 2006 in Japan) by D3 Publisher Inc., Onechanbara was an action game in the Dynasty Warriors mold, wherein bikini-clad women cut down hordes of zombies with katana swords.

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video games lawyer

How Is Steam Like Apple and the UFC?

1000 648 David Hoppe

Well, it’s official: Apple did not abuse its monopoly position from 2006-2009.  Fresh off a stalemate with Samsung, Apple found itself back in court this fall.  For those who didn’t…

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3D Printing Is The New Black

1000 648 David Hoppe

When you hear the word “gaming,” what types of things come to mind? Video games? Online multiplayer games? Mobile games? Virtual reality? Well, yes, but that’s all about to change…

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copyright lawyer

The Age of Monetization

1000 648 David Hoppe

The word “monetization” is not a new; officially it means to coin money, or to establish something as legal tender, but in recent years has come to mean utilizing something…

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If Content Is King, Then Netflix Rules!

1000 648 David Hoppe

“Sometimes you’re up, and sometimes you’re down,” the old saying goes. And no one knows that better than Netflix. After several dismal years, and a crisis of investor confidence, the…

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media lawyer

Your Television is about to be Disrupted!

1000 648 David Hoppe

Major broadcast networks including Disney’s ABC, News Corp, CBS, and Comcast’s NBC Universal are in a fight for their lives, so to speak. Their nemesis: Aereo, a start-up that offers…

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