Gaming and E-Sport
Gaming and E-Sport
It's more than just a game: in e-sports, highly paid individual athletes and clans (teams) compete for international titles and sponsorship money - it’s an industry worth billions.
A young Oppenhoff team with a (private) gaming licence advises various players in this industry on all relevant legal issues, such as:
- Are organisers of e-sports events allowed to duplicate the programs?
- Is it unproblematic to use algorithms to detect cheat software?
- What counts as an e-athlete’s place of work? And what should be considered from the labour law perspective when it comes to transfers?
- How are entry and prize money taxed?
- What legal form should e-sports organisations and clans choose?
The initiative was launched by Caterina Hanke. In addition to Caterina Hanke (both Litigation and Arbitration/Intellectual Property), the team includes (Tax Law), Patric Mau, Dr. Fee Mäder (Both Intellectual Property), Malte Menken (Corporate/M&A), Daniel Gellrich, Martin-Oliver Nonnast (Both Tax Law), Christian Saßenbach (IT Law and Data Protection), Dr. Alexander Willemsen (Labour Law) and Edder Cifuentes (Corporate/M&A, Latin America Desk).
They advise streaming platforms, publishers, event organisers, sponsors, teams and management and sports agencies - most recently, among others, Rush Entertainment AG on trademark issues in connection with the launch of the RUSH.GG platform.
More information and tips on this topic will be available here soon. Wait and see - or as gamers would say: HF (have fun)!
Brochure
Flyer E-Sport (PDF)
Our attorneys in the individual practice areas have already published the following articles on e-sports:
- Legal risks associated with changes to the in-game payment system
- Earning money with gaming - labour law questions arising in e-sports
- Gaming & e-sports: the virtual world remains sales tax-free (for now)
- E-sports events: commercial exploitation
- Cheating in multiplayer games: the TTDSG as a hurdle for reading out the hardware ID?
- E-sports and corporate law: structures and investment opportunities
- Gaming and e-sports: who guarantees the protection of minors?
- Young initiative: Oppenhoff advises clients in the gaming and e-sports sector
Caterina Hanke
Junior PartnerAttorney
Bockenheimer Landstraße 2-4
60306 Frankfurt am Main
T +49 69 707968 185
M +49 176 4579 8083