More than Just a Game - Maastricht, the Netherlands

6 June 2019

Time: 1:00 - 6:00pm
Venue: Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

More Than Just a Game is a unique international series of academic-led conferences on Games and Interactive Entertainment Law attracting an international network of researchers and legal professionals who are passionate about the most successful and fastest-growing of the Creative Industries. In this unique environment creativity meets advanced technologies, spawning cutting-edge legal and regulatory explorations.

Programme

• 13.00-13.20 - Registration
• 13.20-13.30 - Welcome
• 13.30-14.45 - Video games as copyright works and interactive storytelling
  
  Chair: Gaetano Dimita (Queen Mary University of London)
  
  The speakers will address the legal qualification of video games as a computer programme or a copyright work. Also, the legal protection for board games and how that may change when games are offered in a digital context will be addressed.
  
  “Games according to Dutch law: copyright work or computer programme?” Rene Otto (Laywer Van Iersel Luchtman Advocaten)
  
  “Legal Protection of Board Games from classic to digital” Philip Usadel (Legal Counsel Ravensburger AG)
  
  
• 14.45-15.15 - Break
• 15.15-16.30 - Serious games in health care
  
  Chair: Anke Moerland (Maastricht University)
  
  This panel will address the impact of medical device law and the GDPR on the development and functioning of games used in healthcare.
  
  Speakers:
  
  Rik Geurts (Lawyer Van Iersel Luchtman Advocaten)
  Jurriaan van Rijswijk (Games for Health Foundation)
  
  
• 16.30-17.15 - Fireside chat on the role of competition law in the video game industry and platform dominance
  
  Chair: Anselm Kamperman Sanders (Maastricht University)
  
  Speakers:
  Andrea Rizzi (Partner Insight Studio Legale)
  Thomas Graf (Lawyer Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP)
  
  
• 17.15-18.00 - Networking snacks and drinks