Hamburg Games Conference 2023
Gamesmarkt reports on this year’s Hamburg Games Conference.
2023
“Seneca”
Our highlight of the past Berlinale week: the film “Seneca”, in which Ralph Oliver Graef from our film team was involved as Associate Producer, and which had its premiere in the “Special Gala” series. As the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung rightly judged: “John Malkovich turns the dying monologue of the Roman philosopher Seneca into a stellar hour of acting.” You rock, John Malkovich.
Berlinale Webinar | Moot Court Competition Media Law
Our specialist for personal rights accompaniment of film productions, Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef, at the Berlinale Moot Court. There we will discuss the possibilities and limits of fictional storytelling in the conflict between artistic freedom, personal rights and public interest.
Hamburg Games Conference
You can meet the following companies at the Hamburg Games Conference on March 1 and 2 in Hamburg. We have many international guests, an exciting program over two days about “Invest in Games” as well as Meet2Match. Come and join us.
Amazing Maurice
Amazing Maurice, based on the book from Terry Pratchett, and produced by Ulysses Filmproduktion has been selected by Sundance Film Festival 2023 and will be released in Germany this February. It was great to be part of this German-UK co-production. Thanks for the ride Ulysses, Cantilever, Sky, Narrativia et al.
2022
Handbook “Games und Recht”
We are pleased to have contributed to the handbook “Games und Recht” with our article on “Influencer Marketing and Influencer Contracts” (Ralph Oliver Graef). On more than 560 pages, there is concentrated legal know-how on the topics of publishing, marketing, business models, licenses, youth protection, data protection, copyright, employment contracts, trademark law and promotion.
FOCUS Special 2022: “1000 Top Lawyers”
FOCUS Spezial 2022 recommends GRAEF Rechtsanwälte as a top law firm in the area of “Media and Press”. Our firm was “disproportionately recommended by colleagues”.
Filmfest Hamburg – All you need is law on 04.10.2022
As part of the Hamburg Film Festival, the following panel discussion will take place in the CinemaxX Dammtor on October 4, 2022 as part of the “All you need is Law” event series organized by MOIN Filmförder in cooperation with the media law firms GRAEF, UNVERZAGT and VON HAVE FEY:
Heads or tails: spoiled for choice?
Tax Credit vs. Investment Obligation
In the coalition agreement of the traffic light government, both models are equivalent. There are differences: Are tax incentive models the push the film industry needs or should the major streaming platforms be obliged to invest more in the German film market? Or is the solution perhaps somewhere in the middle? In short keynote speeches, Anne Baumgärtel from Deloitte and Klaus Goldhammer from Goldmedia provide an insight into the two models. While Baumgärtel discusses the advantages of the tax credits model, Goldhammer presents the results of his “platform study”, which supports the introduction of an investment obligation. Katharina Hiersemenzel (Constantin Film), Christian Sommer (Motion Picture Association) and Malte Grunert (Amusement Park Films) will then discuss. Ulrich Höcherl, publisher and editor-in-chief of Blickpunkt:Film (media partner), will moderate the event.
Series Lab 2022
We are happy to support Series Lab Hamburg where 20 European producer-writer-teams with a TV drama series in development come together for script consultancies, networking and one-on-ones with international financiers. Series Lab is supported by ZDF Studios, Sky Deutschland, GRAEF Rechtsanwälte et. al.
Award by brandeins
We did it again… GRAEF Rechtsanwälte was named one of Germany’s best commercial law firms in the areas of media & press law and trademark law.
Hey, Pippi Langstrumpf
A long landmark case before the Hamburg Regional Court and the Hamburg Higher Regional Court comes to an end. Astrid Lindgren, author of the original Swedish song “Här kommer Pippi Långstrump,” becomes co-author of the German version “Hey, Pippi Longstocking,” powered by GRAEF Rechtsanwälte.
Media Law Workshop for Stage School Graduates
Hamburg Games Conference powered by GRAEF Rechtsanwälte.
Thank you for two days of insights, speeches, meeting industry experts and networking opportunities.
The Legal 500 Handbook 2022 once again recognizes GRAEF Rechtsanwälte as one of Germany’s leading law firms for the areas of “Media/Entertainment” and “Gaming”.
Legal 500 states: “GRAEF Rechtsanwälte offers ‘excellent advice on data protection, trademark and copyright law’ and has ‘immense expertise in media law, film, TV and video games’. Especially for video game law, the firm is considered ‘one of Germany’s top boutiques’. Ralph Oliver Graef‘s team is noted for, among other things, advising on many international feature film productions and representing clients in lawsuits over film rights, music rights and copyrights.“
Our clients have commented on our work as follows: “Communication with the GRAEF team is excellent. Responses are fast, brief, and concise, and solutions are always pragmatic. The team always works in a time-effective and solution-oriented manner.”
Media Law International 2022
Media Law International ranks our firm as follows: “GRAEF is one of the top law firms for entertainment law, media law and IP law. It focuses on clients from the film and television, book publishing, computer games, and live entertainment industries, as well as on public figures. Managed by Ralph Oliver Graef, the firm has exceptional experience in the financing and production of national and international films, as well as the vetting of scripts and manuscripts. Additional specialties include the right to freedom of expression, litigation PR and data protection. Clients praise the team for its top-notch legal advice, its hands-on approach and its exceptionally high success rate in court.”
2021
Gamesmarkt article about Hamburg Games Conference 2022
The Hamburg Games Conference 2022 is in the starting blocks. After the great success of our online conference in 2021, we are planning a hybrid event for 2022 and are looking forward to many international participants in addition to the national participants.
MAX
In an interview with MAX, Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef (GRAEF Rechtsanwälte) classifies the legal aspects of the new ARD series “Legal Affairs,” which takes us into the world of media lawyers, the shallows of the boulevard and popcorn press law.
European Pro Bono Week Germany 2021
Social responsibility in times of transformation
Lecture on “Hate Speech” by Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef on November 23, 2021 at 12:30 p.m.
GRAEF Attorneys at Law on the Right to Data in Industry 4.0
GRAEF Attorneys at Law on the Right to Data in Industry 4.0
Filmfest Hamburg 2021 with the panel “Germany after the Election: Future Questions of German Film” powered by GRAEF Rechtsanwälte.
How competitive are Germany’s cinema films in the international arena? How sustainable is national film funding? Dr. Carsten Brosda (Senator for Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), Tabea Rößner (Member of the Bundestag, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) and Martin Turowski (cinema operator and board member of Kinoverbund Schleswig-Holstein) were among the speakers at the CinemaxX Dammtor.
FOCUS Special 2021: “1000 Top Lawyers”
FOCUS Spezial 2021 recommends GRAEF Rechtsanwälte as a top law firm in the area of “Media and Press”. Our firm was “disproportionately recommended by colleagues”.
Best Lawyers Award 2021
Ralph Oliver Graef is named one of Germany’s best lawyers in “Entertainment Law” for the eighth time by Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers.
Series Lab 2021
GRAEF Rechtsanwälte is very happy to support Series Lab Hamburg, the project development, co-production and financing event organized by Creative Europe Desk MEDIA Hamburg. Creative Europe is the funding program for Europe’s audiovisual sector and the cultural and creative industries. Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef will be delivering the key note on “News from Brussels?! on Wednesday, June 23, 2021.
„LOVEPARADE – Die Verhandlung“ wins the Grimme Award 2021
The film “LOVEPARADE – The Negotiation”, which we have been advising, wins the Grimme Award 2021. Congratulations to DOCDAYS Productions and Dominik Wessely (director).
brandeins honors GRAEF Rechtsanwälte
We are thrilled that GRAEF Rechtsanwälte has once again been ranked Tier 1 in „press and media law“ and „trademark law“ in ‚The Best Business Law Firms in Germany 2021’ by brand eins magazine.
BGH denies injunctive relief
Journalist may continue to report on double plagiarism. FAZ journalist Dr. Jochen Zenthöfer wins important landmark ruling with GRAEF Rechtsanwälte on press coverage of scientific doctoral theses and habilitations.
German Computer Game Awards
Congratulations to Mimimi Games for the double win at the German Computer Game Awards (Best Game and Best Studio) and Quantumfrog for the Best Family Game award! And Supercrowd Entertainment won the special prize for the Indie Arena Booth. Congratulations to all winners!
“Bad Company”
The Wirecard scandal is filleted in a great and highly original way in the book “Bad Company” from Penguin Random House, a “must read”. And, as to be expected, not everyone in charge and involved likes it. SPIEGEL documents this attack on the freedom of the press and publishing. Our task: to stand up for precisely this freedom of the press and publishing.
Hamburg Games Conference 2021 – we are stoked.
Hamburg Games Conference 2021 exceeds expectations and sets new standards for B2B online events.