Game Industry Legal Conference

October 6-7, 2020

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About

Game Industry Legal Conference is an international event designed to cover most relevant legal aspects of the gaming industry. The two days event will be full of insights and networking opportunities for law firms, in-house lawyers and independent professionals.

Conference dates: October 6-7 2020

Topics to be covered: everything legal connected with games, including intellectual property, tax, GDPR, litigations, restructuring etc.

About White Nights: White Nights Conference is a leading B2B event for the game industry in Europe. It gathers key companies from European countries, Russia & CIS, Asia, and the US - over 4,500 attendees per year offline and over 10,000 participants online.

About WN Hub: WN Hub is an online communication platform for game industry designed to help companies reach their business goals online.

Speakers

Roman Lukyanov

Managing Partner

Inna Palamarchuk

Head of Legal

Paul Gardner

Partner

Jari-Pekka Kaleva

COO

Toussaint L. Myricks

Counsel

Aaron Kornblum

General Counsel

Egor Soudakov

Legal Counsel

Sponsors

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Game Industry Legal Conference Program

Speaker Submission

Please mind that we are using London Time (UTC+1)

09:55 - 10:30
ENG

Andrew Cooke, Fnatic

Esports Sponsorships: 2020 Lessons Learned and Action Plan for 2021

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Andy Cooke has spent more than fifteen years structuring high value sponsorship deals in music, sport and esports. In this session he'll discuss the emerging recognition among esports pros and streamers of their value and social influence, and lessons learned from renewing deals during lockdown.

10:30 - 11:40
ENG

PANEL DISCUSSION. Global taxation challenges for the gaming industry

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Games industry’s relationship with taxes has never been easy, there are more questions than answers. Join us to hear about the latest developments in the area of taxes.

Speakers:
Sergey Nazarkin, Partner, Amond & Smith
Wojciech Fryze, Partner, Olesiński & Wspólnicy
Vladimir Klusov, Tax Manager, Playrix
George Ioannou, Partner, Chrysostomides
More speakers to be announced soon

Moderator:
To be announced

11:40 - 12:15
ENG

Leena Kuusniemi, Legal Advisor, European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC)

M&A deals legal aspects

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Session description will be announced soon

12:15 - 16:20

Networking Time

16:20 - 17:30
ENG

FIRESIDE CHAT: In-Game Items Regulations

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Fireside chat description will be announced soon

Speakers:
Michael G. Lewis, Chief Counsel, Intellectual Property Protection and Cybersecurity, Entertainment Software Association
Inna Palamarchuk, Head of Legal, Innova

17:30 - 18:40
ENG

PANEL DISCUSSION. Protecting your videogame IP: best practices

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Panelists will discuss everything related to violations of video game rights and protection from such violations (new laws, practices, good practices).

Speakers:
Aaron Kornblum, General Counsel, Improbable
Alena Kuzmina, IP Counsel, Content Protection and Anti-Piracy, Brand Security
Egor Soudakov, Legal Counsel, Playrix
Tim Quinlan, General Counsel, Nexon

Moderator:
Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner, Semenov & Pevzner

09:20 - 09:55
ENG

James Lalonde, Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer, Yodo1

Legal features of the Chinese game industry

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James will be sharing first-hand knowledge of the key China regulations circulating around:
1. ISBN/Copyright registration and Apple China policies 2. Game IP protection in china 3. Some insight regarding the tax policies in China such as VAT and Withholding Tax

09:55 - 11:05
ENG

PANEL DISCUSSION. Privacy laws session

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"Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves". The recent events in the games industry showed that guarding personal data and the systems that hold them is as just as critical as collecting it in first place. Join us to hear more about new regulations around the globe, including:
• CCPA
• GPPR
• 152-FZ

11:05 - 11:40
ENG

Jari-Pekka Kaleva, COO, European Games Developer Federation (EGDF)

What to do if your game is removed from an application store?

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On the 12th of July 12 2020, a new EU regulation bringing significant new rights for European game developers and publishers against game distribution platforms came into effect. Among other things, the new rules will create limitations for the ways games can be removed from digital distribution platforms operating in Europe, forcing these platforms to build internal complaint handling mechanisms, and introducing new mandatory requirements on notifying game developers and publishers beforehand on any upcoming changes in terms and conditions.

11:40 - 12:15

Cristina Costache, Prospectacy

The problems of Digital Market Related to Privacy Requirements. How to Deal with and What to Expect.

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The rewiew of current problems related to privacy, including overview of complaints related to violation of privacy requirements by mobile games/applications distributors/mobile marketing agencies and analytic services. How to integrate privacy decision in mobile app. Some cases with summer up of tendencies and new features. Recomendations how to behave and how to avoid problems. General tendencies of global privacy climate and how it can impact the business activity and change the market.

12:40 - 16:20

Networking Time

16:20 - 17:30
ENG

FIRESIDE CHAT. Underage Players Regulations

Speakers to be announced

17:30 - 18:40
ENG