Alex Farrar: Legal Issues In Games For Change Development http://youtu.be/THLFI6ms13w Alex will give a brief oversight into the legal issues relevant to developing and marketing games for change, and some strategies for minimising risk.

1. Legal Issues In Games For
Change
Alex Farrar
Shiff & Company Lawyers
@LawLOLZ
afarrar@shiffco.com.au

2. What legal risks are inherent in
developing, marketing and exploiting
Games for Change?

3. 1. Collaboration;
2. Representations about benefits;
3. Privacy issues; and
4. “Real life” consequences.

4. Collaboration
• Intellectual property issues;
“Twitter is a social network platform which is available
to most people who have a computer and therefore
any content on it is not subject to the same copyright
laws as it is already in the public domain. The BBC is
aware of copyright issues and is careful to abide by
these laws”.
• Division of responsibilities. Particularly, who controls the message?

5. Consumer Law Issues
• What representations are you making about
your game?
• What are your consumers saying about your
game?

6. Privacy
• What information are users giving you?
• What information are you collecting about
users?
• To what use can you put this information?

7. Real Life Consequences
• Risks your users face as they play;
• What unintended consequences or influences
could the game have?

8. Check List - the basics
• Clear partnership/project agreement, including (if relevant) a
social media policy;
• Representations about the product based on fact (or excellent
research) only;
• Tailored privacy agreement that you abide by;
• Tailored terms of sale.

9. Alex Farrar
@LawLOLZ
afarrar@shiffco.com.au