Assuming it is signed by the Governor, on January 1st, 2020, California’s AB5 Labor Bill will go into effect and will prevent many companies from treating their workers as independent contractors. What does this mean? The short version is that AB5 presents an ABC test. If A) workers perform tasks under a company’s control, B) …
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Gamedaily.biz recently covered Niantic’s trespassing class action lawsuit from 2016 as Niantic has agreed to settle the suit (without accepting liability). Here is an excerpt: For Brandon Huffman, an attorney at Odin Law, the relatively low payouts to the plaintiffs means Niantic accrues little risk in choosing to settle the case. “The settlement is a …
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Microtransactions can be a great source of revenue for developers producing games for children. It’s not often that a child is packing a wallet full of cash to spend on games upfront, so creating free-to-play games with microtransactions as the main source of revenue is one path a game maker can take to recoup the …
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