Esports Law and Practice

Preface xxiii

In Memoriam: Andrea Rizzi xxv

PART I ESPORTS, LEX SPORTIVA, AND THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT
1 Essentials of esports law and practice 2
Leonid Shmatenko and Oleksandr Volkov
2 Esports and the Olympic Movement 9
Oleksandr Volkov, Veronika Hodlevska and Valeriia Yakimova
3 Esports – lex sportiva or lex mercatoria? 27
Ashot Kyureghyan

PART II ESPORTS UNDER THE PRISM OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
4 The organization of esports tournaments: An overview 45
Andrea Rizzi and Gaetano Dimita
5 The role of copyright and EULAs in the esports ecosystem 82
Despoina Farmaki
6 Intellectual property rights within esports: The future of NFTS and the metaverse 97
Dwayne Bach and Bo Huyn (Jenny) Kim

PART III ESPORTS IN THE CONTEXT OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
7 Valuing esports organisations 122
Ekaterina Lohwasser and Francesco Di Ianni
8 Esports M&A – transaction documents 147
Karsten Faulhaber, Benedikt Midgal and Damien Simonot
9 Esports and antitrust law 171
Soojin Nam, Viktoria H.S.E. Robertson and Fabian Ziermann
10 International tax implications in esports 199
Masha Stolbova and Stanislau Lashkevich

PART IV GOVERNANCE IN THE ESPORTS REALM
11 Loot boxes, esports, and gambling laws 218
Darius Gambino
12 Match-fixing/betting fraud in esports 242
Bernhard Campara-Kopeinig and Daniel Diller
13 Doping and other illicit performance-enhancing practices in esports 289
Nick Williams
14 Esports employment contracts 314
Alex Polishuk

PART V ESPORTS AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
15 Dispute resolution in esports 329
Anton Sotir
16 Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms for intellectual property and commercial disputes in the esports industry 372
Leandro Toscano, Oscar Suárez Bohórquez and Alexia Gkoritsa
17 Esports regulations and the potential for investor-state arbitration 395
Leonid Shmatenko and Anastasiia Dulska

Bibliography 426