Essential Guide to the Business & Law of Esports & Professional Video Gaming

<p>As esports has grown the need for professional legal representation has grown with it. Justin's <i>Essential Guide to the Business & Law of Esports & Professional Video Gaming</i> provides a great baseline and will help prevent the legal horror stories of esports in the past. </p><p>Mitch Reames <i>AdWeek</i> and <i>Esports Insider</i></p><p>Justin’s exploration of the business and law side of the esports sector fills a gap of knowledge that is an absolute necessity in truly understanding the esports space.</p><p>Kevin Hitt <i>The Esports Observer</i></p><p>The Essential Guide to the Business & Law of Esports & Professional Video Gaming covers everything you need to know about the past present and future of esports and professional video gaming. The book is written by one of the foremost attorneys and business practitioners in today’s esports and professional gaming scene Justin M. Jacobson Esq.</p><p> This guide is meant to provide you with an in-depth look at the business and legal matters associated with the esports world. </p><p>• Includes coverage of the stakeholders in the esports business ecosystem including the talent the teams the publishers and the event organizers.</p><p>• Explores various legal fields involved with esports including intellectual property employment and player unions business investments and tax write-offs immigration and visas event operation tips social media and on-stream promotions and much more.</p><p>• The most current book on the market with actual contract provisions modeled on existing major esports player coach shoutcaster and sponsorship agreements.</p><p> <b>About the Author</b></p><p>Justin M. Jacobson Esq. is an entertainment and esports attorney located in New York City. For the last decade he has worked with professional athletes musicians producers DJs record labels fashion designers as well as professional gamers streamers coaches on-air talent and esports organizations. He assists these creative individuals with their contract copyright trademark immigration tax and related business marketing and legal issues. He is a frequent contributor to many industry publications and has been featured on a variety of entertainment music and esports publications and podcasts including <i>Business Insider</i><i> The Esports Observer</i><i> Esports Insider</i><i> Tunecore</i><i> </i>and<i> Sport Techie</i>.</p><p>Justin has positioned himself as a top esports business professional working with talent in a variety of franchise leagues including the <i>Overwatch League</i> <i>Overwatch Contenders</i> and <i>Call of Duty Pro League</i> as well as in many popular competitive titles such as <i>Fortnite</i><i> CS:GO</i><i> Gears of War</i><i> Halo</i><i> Super Smash Brothers</i><i> Rainbow 6</i><i> PUBG</i><i> Madden</i><i> </i>and<i> FIFA</i> and mobile games such as <i>Brawlhalla</i><i> Clash of Clans</i><i> and Call of Duty</i> mobile. Previously he worked with various esports talent agencies as well as in an official capacity on behalf of several esports teams and brands.</p>