Layla Maurer

Layla is an attorney at Odin Law and Media who provides practical counsel to creative, gaming, and tech sector clients on all aspects of licensing and development. She particularly enjoys complex co-dev arrangements and privacy or policy work. She teaches transactional drafting and video game law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. You can reach Layla at layla at odin law dot com.

Twitch’s New AI Terms Affect Developers, Too: How to Mitigate Risks to Game IP

By / August 18, 2026

On August 12, Twitch shifted the default settings on every channel so that a broad range of content (including live streams, VODs, clips, highlights, and the text and images on a channel) can be used to train Amazon’s generative AI models unless a creator opts out. The shift has drawn plenty of attention from the …

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What Happens to a Publishing Deal When Conditions Change?

By / July 24, 2026

Gaming is an ever-evolving industry that seems to shift and reinvent itself every day. Big news or changes in industry conditions can directly impact publishing deals, so publishers, developers and content creators will want to look at any deals they have in place (or that they’re negotiating) when that news hits. One event impacting the …

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