25 Nov, 2024 Riot Games introduces a new dispute resolution process By Will Deller Alex Shkurka Riot Games (Riot), the publisher of hugely popular games such as League of Legends and Valorant, has now launched its own esports dispute...
22 Nov, 2024 Levelling Up: Women in Esports | Women's Sport Series By Will Deller Sophie Stoneham In this episode of the MediaWrites Podcast: Women's Sport Series, gaming lawyers Will Deller & Sophie Stoneham are joined by special...
16 Oct, 2024 European consumer organisation challenges in-game monetisation landscape as unfair By Will Deller Sophie Stoneham In-game monetisation, whether through (among other things) the sale of in-game items, additional content or new features, is an...
24 Oct, 2023 Women’s Sport Series: What next for women in esports By Alex Shkurka alexWhat progress has been made? It is well-known that esports has traditionally been considered a male dominated industry, with...
12 Dec, 2022 MediaWrites Party 2022, Panel discussion recording By MediaWrites Editorial Fad or future: which innovations are here to stay? Virtual events, NFTs, the Metaverse, Web3, Crypto… Everyone is talking about these...
25 Nov, 2022 European Parliament passes resolution providing recommendations for enhancing the European video game and esports industries By Will Deller Nick Cowen On 10 November 2022, the European Parliament passed a Resolution recognising the potential and value of esports and the video games...
03 Aug, 2022 Loot boxes: UK government says no to regulation By Andy Danson On 18 July 2022, the UK government published its formal response to its 2020 call for evidence on loot boxes in video games. The...
04 Feb, 2022 Podcast: Fashion meets Gaming By Rebecca O'Kelley-Gillard Will Deller In this podcast, Gaming & Esports Senior Associate, Will Deller, chats to IP Partner, Rebecca O’Kelly-Gillard, about the crossover...
29 Oct, 2021 Podcast: esports, the metaverse and more – a conversation with Andrew Cooke, General Counsel at Fnatic (Part 2) By Will Deller Part 1 of the conversation between Andrew Cooke, General Counsel at Fnatic, and Bird & Bird’s Will Deller was released last Friday – you...
20 Oct, 2021 Podcast: esports, the metaverse and more – a conversation with Andrew Cooke, General Counsel at Fnatic (Part 1) By Will Deller Andrew Cooke is the General Counsel at Fnatic, the leading team in esports and a pioneer in the pro gaming space. He is joined by Will...
10 Dec, 2020 Fashion x Gaming: Fashion Catches the Gaming Bug By Will Deller Conor Hume While COVID-19 continues to restrict our daily lives, the gaming and esports landscape is booming. In conjunction with this growth, there...
21 Oct, 2020 Riot Games and Spotify team up By Aneesah Kabba Kamara In a first-of-its-kind sponsorship agreement, Spotify has become the official and exclusive audio streaming partner for Riot Games’...
21 Aug, 2020 Podcast: Making the most of the esports opportunity By Will Deller Richard Bush Making the most of the esports opportunity: Bird & Bird's esports team discuss the key commercial and legal issues surrounding this...
20 May, 2020 Esports: a new market for travel businesses after COVID-19? By Will Deller The travel industry has been hit particularly hard by the effects of COVID-19, with travel companies worldwide working incredibly hard to...
04 Jul, 2019 MediaBytes – the last month on MediaWrites: the Copyright Directive, AI content moderation, and esports By Katrina Baxter In the second instalment of our new video series, MediaBytes, Katrina Baxter talks to the authors of some recent posts which have been...
06 Jun, 2019 Blockchain, smart contracts and esports: a match-winning formula? By Will Deller Jonathan Emmanuel From relatively obscure origins, the advent of cryptocurrency has fuelled a blockchain (or, less catchy, “distributed ledger technology”)...