Legal Weaknesses in Esports Business Contracts

TLDR

• The central lesson is straightforward: legal protection should be built into an esports business from the beginning.
• They may be presented with standard contracts covering exclusivity, revenue shares, intellectual property and use of their image.
• A dispute involving game licences, tournament rights, cheating allegations, player contracts or digital content may be difficult to explain to a decision-maker unfamiliar with the industry.
• Esports companies often spend more time choosing logos than reviewing contracts.
• In a new Esports Africa News interview, Leandro Toscano, Head of the Business Development and Digital Copyright Disputes Section at the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center, examines.