29 Oct, 2020 It's not just teams affected by COVID - the US economy has been built around game days, and COVID has a dramatic impact on those businesses By Ben Gipson With the end of basketball, baseball, and hockey seasons, and as football (both the US and European kind) are coming to grips with the...
28 Oct, 2020 State of Play: What's next for the billion-dollar esports industry By DLA Piper - Media, Sport & Entertainment Tom Ara, co-chair of DLA Piper's Entertainment Finance and Transactions Practice, speaks with Mike Sepso, co-founder and CEO of Vindex,...
22 Oct, 2020 France takes steps to protect "kid influencers" By Gregory Tulquois Floriane Gaumerais Tom Fitzpatrick The French parliament has recently passed legislation to protect the interests of so-called "kid influencers" (Law No. 2020-1266 dated 19...
21 Oct, 2020 DLA Piper's Global Media and Sport Summit 2020 By Nick 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...
19 Oct, 2020 Update: German sports betting licensing procedure continues By Christoph Engelmann The German sports betting licensing procedure that had started in January 2020 and that had been preliminary stopped by a decision of the...
16 Oct, 2020 No Exit through the Gift Shop - Banksy trade mark declared invalid for bad faith By Samantha Bradley The Cancellation Division of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has declared invalid an EU trade mark registration...
14 Oct, 2020 Preferential ‘zero tariffs’ violate net neutrality By Gabriele Engels Internet services providers should not give preferential treatment to certain applications and services by continuing to offer their...
09 Oct, 2020 Back in the game: how the UK is planning to allow fans to return to sporting events By Tom Herbert With COVID-19 cases beginning to rise again, the UK Government has paused plans to allow the partial return of sports fans to venues and...
05 Oct, 2020 Update: German Gambling Regulation 2021 Transitional Regime By Christoph Engelmann The new German gambling regulation, the State Treaty on Gambling 2021 (Glücksspielstaatsvertrag 2021 = GlüStV 2021), will bring...