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Games Business & Legal Affairs Event – Register Now!

Pillsbury attorney, Sean F. Kane will be a featured panelist at the upcoming Video Game Bar Association’s inaugural Game Business & Legal Affairs conference. The conference will provide an in-depth analysis of the prevalent and pertinent legal and business issues within the video game industry. Founded in 2011 as an…

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DMCA Saves YouTube…Again

Yesterday a NY court again dismissed Viacom’s $1 billion suit against Google/YouTube for copyright infringement. The court found that the DMCA shielded YouTube from liability after an appellate court (see prior blog post) vacated the prior dismissal. This decision reaffirms the fact that, subject to certain exceptions, the burden of policing copyright…

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GiGse and Social Casino Summit 2013

Please join us April 24-25 at the Social Casino Summit. Pillsbury will be participating in the Global iGaming Summit and Expo as an exhibiting sponsor James Gatto will be presenting a session titled, “Clarifying the blurred legal boundaries between various forms of social, virtual currency, prediction, sweepstakes and other forms…

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Safe Tweeting: SEC Provides Guidance on Social Media and Regulation FD Compliance

The SEC has provided guidance to publicly reporting companies on how to use popular social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, consistent with federal securities laws. For more information, please read Safe Tweeting: SEC Provides Guidance on Social Media and Regulation FD Compliance.

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SEC OKs Social Media Sites for Financial Disclosures

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a report that makes clear that companies can use social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to announce key information in compliance with Regulation Fair Disclosure (Regulation FD) so long as investors have been alerted about which social media will be used to disseminate…

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Around the Virtual World: March 25-29, 2013

A weekly wrap up of interesting news about virtual worlds, virtual goods and other social media.   RUMOR: Google Is Launching An Augmented Reality Based E-Book Line Google is going to be launching a line of e-books that utilize augmented reality using technology that was developed by Niantic Labs.  Niantic Labs…

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Senate Bill 467 Introduced

California Senator Mark Leno recently introduced Senate Bill 467, a bill that would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation prohibiting a government entity from obtaining the contents of a  wire or electronic communication from a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service. California Penal Code…