1 / 4

Contractual, Legal and Ethical O bligations within the games industry

Contractual, Legal and Ethical O bligations within the games industry . By Craig Dennett And Jeremy Marks. Contractual Information. There are different types of contracts: Employment C ontract: This covers benefits, inventions, non-compete clause and confidentiality.

dugan
Download Presentation

Contractual, Legal and Ethical O bligations within the games industry

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Contractual, Legal and Ethical Obligations within the games industry By Craig Dennett And Jeremy Marks

  2. Contractual Information There are different types of contracts: • Employment Contract: This covers benefits, inventions, non-compete clause and confidentiality. • Development Agreement: This covers, terms, ownership, warranties, legal details, termination, appendices. • License Agreements: This covers, what’s being licensed, what it can be used for, territory, term, finances • Confidentiality Agreements: This covers, disclosure of ‘secrets’, so if you were to get a job developing games, then you would sign a Confidentiality agreement so that you were contracted not to pass on any information about the game. • Collaboration Agreements: This covers all of the above contracts in one, just making one contract rather than four.

  3. Legal Obligations • Age Restrictions: All games are obligated to be judged by PEGI and given an acceptable minimum age for players. • PEGI (Pan European Game Information) This is the governing body • Advertising Laws (ASA) This is the UK’s independent regulator of all media types, including games. • Trademarks

  4. Ethical Obligations • Violence • Drugs • Racism • Discrimination • Addicts • Children

More Related