What are Current Digital Arts Industry Legal Issues and Solutions?

Digital Arts Industry Legal Issues and Digital Arts Law

Our digital arts industry experienced lawyers help digital arts companies navigate the legal landscape and proactively advise on unique legal issues faced by the digital arts industry. 

Common legal issues faced by digital arts companies include:

• Protecting rights in code, brands, characters and other aspects of apps and video games software and other proprietary content;

• Trademark registrations;

• Issues related to international transactions;

• Content creation agreements;

• Acquiring music and other rights from others;

• E-commerce issues and online sales

• Apple and Android Store agreements;

• GDPR and other privacy law compliance;

• Creating entities and raising capital;

• Enforcement of copyrights and other intellectual property rights against infringers;

• Hiring developers and employees; and

• Licensing agreements including end user license agreements (EULAs).

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Clients in the digital arts industry receive the full range of the firm’s services: litigation, intellectual property, and transactional.   

Our digital arts industry legal team is experienced in protecting copyrights in various app and video game software, GUI, wireframes, characters, features and icons, as well as other audio and visual creative content.  We have also protected defended app and video game software trademarks via trademark registration in the US and international jurisdictions. We also handle patent registration for apps, games software and hardware and related technology. Additional app and video game software services include anti-counterfeiting to enforce copyrights and trademarks against infringers and counterfeiters; drafting employment agreements, independent contract agreements, NDAs, and founder agreements to protect intellectual property rights and ensure they are owned by the company; drafting end user (EULAs) and other license agreements to safeguard rights in the app and video game software; drafting app and video game software development agreements; and monetizing intellectual property rights in apps and games. 

We also assist digital arts companies and founders with entity formation and strategy, including capital and financing strategies.