Loeb & Loeb LLP is pleased to announce that partner Daniel Offner will be moderating a panel titled "Videogames & Computer Entertainment" at the upcoming Practising Law Institute (PLI) seminar, "Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry 2012."

From the program website:

Experienced entertainment attorneys and business executives will discuss legal, financial, business, and ethical issues in the practice of entertainment law.

Selected Agenda
Monday, March 12, 2012
1:45PM – 5:00PM - Videogames & Computer Entertainment

• Meet the parties to the deal
• IP interests in a game
• Treatment of third-party IP in videogames
  • Third party properties
  • Third party technology - tools - middleware
• Treatment of Developer's tools and tech in game dev deals
  • Retention and reuse by Developer - non-compete issues
  • Rights to further use by Publisher; and further compensation to Developer
• Hot-button issues in game development contract negotiation
• Mock negotiation of a simple deal
• Special issues with online and social networks (including privacy, children, contests and sweepstakes, and the FTC)

Moderator:
Daniel Offner, Loeb & Loeb LLP

Speakers:
Marc S. Roth, Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
Adam Sultan, Majesco Entertainment Company