Odin Law and Media is excited to welcome Layla Maurer to the firm! Layla Maurer, Attorney Layla’s practice focuses on helping clients across the creative, gaming and technology industries structure practical transactions. Drawing on her background in IT, digital media and in-house counsel at Wizards of the Coast, she understands...

Many game developers dream of starting a game studio. For some, that has always been the goal. For others, recent layoffs have created the opportunity to build something new. Launching a studio is exciting, but a few early legal decisions can shape everything that follows. Getting these issues right from...

Layoffs and restructurings across the games industry have become a recurring feature of the business, and each one puts a spotlight on a document most studios only think carefully about when they need it: the severance agreement. For the studio or publisher offering it, a severance agreement is the primary...

Every so often, the online discourse returns to a thorny topic in creative industries: working for exposure. The general sentiment is to NEVER work for exposure (i.e., creators should always get paid in cash money), but what does “exposure” actually mean and when might it make sense to work for...

Publishers do a lot of things developers complain about: they take a cut of revenue, they have approval rights over content, they can move slowly, and they sometimes lose interest in the game after launch. However, publishers also absorb a significant amount of legal and administrative work that most developers...

Here is a sentence that makes everyone feel warm and cozy: “You retain ownership rights in your content.” Almost all platform’s terms of service include some version of this, and in each case, it is technically true. The copyright is yours. You can register it, license it elsewhere, and sue...