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32 results for: esports
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UK: new rules for online gambling businesses looming
By Benjamin Fellows
On 14 April 2022, the UK's Gambling Commission announced new rules, which seek to ensure online gambling businesses do more to identify...
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Loot Boxes in video games - anticipated UK regulatory reforms
By Benjamin Fellows
Reform of the UK Gambling Act is gathering pace. A White Paper, which it is anticipated will propose wide reaching reforms for the...
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Increasing use of data in esports – benefits and potential pitfalls
By Benjamin Fellows, Daniel Green, David Cook
Data and technology reside at the core of the esports industry. New technologies are continuously being introduced and incorporated,...
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GDPR Fines and Data Breach Survey 2022
By Duncan Calow
Data protection was once an overlooked area of the law, certainly in the media, sport and entertainment sector. Several years ago, during...
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Exploring the metaverse: What laws will apply?
By Tom Ara, Mark Radcliffe, Michael Fluhr, Katherine Imp
During the last decade, virtual interactions have become an increasingly important part of life for consumers and businesses. This trend...
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Racing Post article on Single Customer View
By Benjamin Fellows
Last week, I was delighted to speak to the Racing Post - the leading print and online publisher in the UK, focused on horse racing and...
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Gambling advertising: revised guidance on responsible and problem gambling
By Benjamin Fellows
On 11 November 2021, the Committee of Advertising Practice, and the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice, published revised...
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Liability in sport – Tylicki v Gibbons
By Benjamin Fellows
On 31 October 2016, flat jockey Frederik Tylicki’s life changed forever. Rounding the final bend in the 15:20 at Kempton Park, Tylicki’s...
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An unreal issue: managing IP in the metaverse
By Anthony Lloyd, Jessie Buchan, Edmond Lau
What is the metaverse and why is it important?The metaverse: the next generation successor to the mobile internet. Made up of shared,...
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Provisional green light of Gambling Commission’s Single Customer View raises important issues for gambling operators, their officers, and bettors
By Benjamin Fellows
A must read for any organisation operating in the gambling sector, in particular its officers - our latest blog explores the Information...
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What a very good question...
By Duncan Calow
7 years ago I wrote an article for Computing magazine entitled "Bitcoin - what is it for?". Back then I wasn't sure what the problem was...
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A step forward in the loot boxes regulation in Spain
By Paula Gonzalez de Castejón Llano-Ponte, Andrea Fernandez
The Spanish Directorate-General for the Regulation of Gambling (the “DGOJ”) has launched a public consultation period for interested...
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State of Play: What's next for the billion-dollar esports industry
By Sarah Jayne Scott
Tom Ara, co-chair of DLA Piper's Entertainment Finance and Transactions Practice, speaks with Mike Sepso, co-founder and CEO of Vindex,...
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DLA Piper's Global Media and Sport Summit 2020
By Nicholas Fitzpatrick
We are delighted to launch our 2020 Media and Sport Summit which will be held virtually across four dates in November and December.The...
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Guild Esports' IPO Announcement
By Tom Fitzpatrick
Guild Esports ("Guild"), which launched in June 2020 and is perhaps best-known for one of its founding shareholders, David Beckham, has...
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DLA Piper enters the Italian Esports Observatory
By Sarah Jayne Scott
DLA Piper has joined the Italian Esports Observatory, a spin-off project of Sport Digital House and the first b2b networking and training...
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