Amanda Whorton to Present at the 44th ABA Forum on Entertainment & Sports Industries

By / January 9, 2025

On Thursday, October 6th, Amanda Whorton will present at the 44th Annual ABA Forum on the Entertainment & Sports Industries in Las Vegas, Nevada. She will be presenting alongside Maddy Batliboi [Meta], Sasha Safavi [United Masters], Douglas Reilly [Lucasfilm Games/Disney] and Danny Walvick [Sirius XM/Pandora]. The topic will be: Music Licensing in the Age of …

Amanda Whorton to Present at the 44th ABA Forum on Entertainment & Sports Industries Read More »

What are the risks of influencer whitelisting?

By / January 9, 2025

Creators should be aware that there exists a good amount of risk with influencer whitelisting. The first, and often overlooked, risk a creator faces with respect to whitelisting is a lost opportunity to earn what their services are worth if whitelisting isn’t carved out as an “added” service in the agreement. Often the Odin team …

What are the risks of influencer whitelisting? Read More »

What are the legal risks involved with localizing a video game?

By / January 9, 2025

The video game industry is a global phenomenon – there are video gamers in every country and in plenty of instances, gamers want to interact with games in their own native language. Localization can be a critical part of publishing a game to help it reach larger audiences. But what is localization and what are …

What are the legal risks involved with localizing a video game? Read More »

What are the legal considerations for collecting data in a video game?

By / January 9, 2025

Data collection and analysis have become ubiquitous with modern technology and are pivotal aspects of contemporary video game design. Game developers may collect data for any number of reasons, including anything from wanting to obtain a user’s name, address, and billing information for in-game purchases, to utilizing collected data to catch hackers, or identify areas …

What are the legal considerations for collecting data in a video game? Read More »

What is influencer whitelisting?

By / January 9, 2025

Influencer whitelisting, or content creator whitelisting, may seem like it’s been around for years but it is still a relatively new marketing tool. It started somewhere around 2017 and has become more prevalent since the pandemic. But what, in fact, is it? Influencer whitelisting At its core, influencer whitelisting is a process by which creators …

What is influencer whitelisting? Read More »

What is deferred compensation?

By / July 6, 2022

Many companies want to reward employees, contractors, and others with incentives to reward their contributions without dipping into the cash needed to continue investing in the business. As a result, companies may turn to “deferred compensation” structures, giving these contributors stock options, future bonuses or other future compensation arrangements. These types of arrangements can be …

What is deferred compensation? Read More »

Roe v. Wade

By / June 29, 2022

At Odin Law and Media, we are outraged at the overturning of Roe v. Wade. We acknowledge the basic truth that women are competent, autonomous people who will make their own healthcare decisions. These choices are intensely private, and the government has no role to play in them. The entire democratic system is weakened when …

Roe v. Wade Read More »

Developments regarding the CCPA and CPPR

By / June 23, 2022

In November 2020, California voters approved the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) which amended and extended the original California Consumer Protection Act of 2018 (CCPA). Previously, rulemaking authority under the Acts belonged solely to the state Attorney General. However, the CPRA established the California Privacy Protection Agency and vested it with the full …

Developments regarding the CCPA and CPPR Read More »