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Ask Games Lawyers Anything: This Normally Costs Money

May 21, 2026 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  • Studio B
  • Round Table, Studio B, XP 26

About Session

This roundtable session allows you to ask any burning legal questions* you may have from a group of games industry lawyers. DLA Piper’s games lawyers have been speaking for years about legal topics near and dear to their favourite digital pastime. The topics to be discussed if nobody’s brave: influencer advertising; loot boxes; IP law; corp stuff; the rise of AI; web3 (if we have to); trademarks and other intellectual property; but we’d love to answer YOUR questions and give out legal info on video game and law topics.
* The speakers can’t give specific legal advice; and aren’t insured for that! Use hypotheticals, people! Of course there’s a disclaimer here… we are lawyers, after all.

TAKEAWAY: An engaging and entertaining look inside the discussions video game lawyers have with clients, as well as an appreciation of the issues that arise in games. Above all else, talking to lawyers can be scary and we want to demystify that! Getting good legal advice is critical to games success.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Anyone interested in the games business! We put these on to make interacting with lawyers approachable and non-scary; we hope you come with legal questions that have been on your mind!

XP Curated Expert Roundtables are available to Conference and VIP pass holders.
Limited capacity ensures focused discussion. Advance registration through MeetToMatch is required and seats will fill quickly.

Speakers

Sangeetha Punniyamoorthy

Sangeetha Punniyamoorthy

Partner; Co-Chair of Canadian Intellectual Property & Technology, DLA Piper Canada LLP
Ryan Black

Ryan Black

Partner; Global Lead, Video Games, DLA Piper (Canada) LLP
David Lafontaine

David Lafontaine

Associate - Intellectual Property and Technology, DLA Piper (Canada) LLP