By Natasha Hashim [First published on ign southeast asia website here] While it sounds awesome for talents in the Southeast Asian gaming industry to be involved in video games for a living – whether behind…
Written by Mark Chuah Chi Ming The 1st of March 2021 marked the second session of an ongoing legal aid clinic aimed to discuss current legal issues in Esports and Sports law hosted by Mr.…
Written by Richard Wee and Brenda Tan Introduction The rise in popularity and influence of Esports in recent years has come to show its importance, as a platform for many Esports players to fulfill their dreams of…
Written by Richard Wee and Ian Phua Lately the internet has been flooded with the legal battle between Epic Games and Apple, what is it all about? Epic Games Inc. “Epic”, the well known American video game…
Written by Ian Phua Recently, the Ministry of Youth and Sports Malaysia has appointed the Esports groups “The Pantheon” to organise a series of webinars on Esports Skills 2.0. The focus of the webinars is…
Reported by Saphna Ravichandran & Wong Zi Ying On 11th September 2020, the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC) hosted a workshop on Understanding Esports: Legal Rights and Implications as part of the on-going AIAC September…
Written by Richard Wee, Wong Zi Ying & Jacob Wong I will continue to fight for the human rights of female athletes, both on and off the track, until we can all run free the…
Written by Richard Wee & Jacob Wong Introduction From Konami Code in 1986 to the famous GTA code and today evolving into various types of different codes that could break the overall fairness of video…
Written by Richard Wee & Wong Zi Ying Introduction In the previous article, we introduced some of the legal disputes in esports and looked at a few examples of it. In this article, we continued…
Reported by Ashley Yip On the 4th of September, the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC) held a workshop at their auditorium. The topic of the seminar was about the Introduction to Sports Dispute Resolution. It…