Specialized Dispute Resolution for Esports

TLDR

• The discussion covers intellectual property, commercial agreements, licensing and the use of mediation and arbitration to resolve disputes without relying entirely on conventional court proceedings.
• Referring vaguely to “international arbitration” may generate another dispute over how the process is supposed to work.
• Specialist resolution for games and esports WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center provides alternative dispute-resolution services for intellectual-property, technology and digital-content disputes.
• The initiative is intended to provide specialist resolution services for disputes within the games and esports sectors.
• 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.