ICE Totally Gaming 2018
Host: Clarion Events
Location: London
Date: 6 – 8 February 2018
By Joe Ewens
A German court has found that the country’s numerous state lottery monopolies are operating in defiance of EU law, emboldening eager private lottery companies seeking to establish a foothold in the lucrative market.
In a judgment announced late last week, the Administrative Court of Munich declared that the land-based lottery monopolies currently in operation in all of the country’s 16 states breached EU’s principles of “freedom to provide services” and the “constitutionally guaranteed freedom of choice”.
Barcelona, 5th July
“The five Leading Lawyers who dominate the iGaming World” shall speak in an exclusive WGES panel discussion which will take place at the W Hotel in Barcelona on 5 July 2017 at 2:10pm.
The four partners of GamingLaw.eu will participate in the panel which shall be moderated by lawyer Tal Itzhak Ron.
WGES (World Gaming Executive Summit) is the most exclusive and influential gathering for the online gaming industry, now in its 11th year.
Meet Santiago Asensi, Justin Franssen, Wulf Hambach and Quirino Mancini in Barcelona
Taken from ‘Casino & Gaming International’ magazine, Issue 29 (2017 Q2) – www.cgimagazine.com
The 2nd Inter-State Treaty amending the Inter-State Treaty on Gambling (“ISTG 18”) is the next chapter in a history of failed attempts to regulate the growing gambling market in Germany. Instead of a complete overhaul of the German gaming regulations the federal states opted for “minimally invasive” changes, keeping the failed ISTG from 2012 (“ISTG 12”) mostly in place.
Read the whole article here.
US states are gradually regulating Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS), but how will their decisions and clarifications impact the German market when DFS operators enter? Wulf Hambach, partner at Hambach & Hambach law firm, Germany, examines the potential outcomes.
Fantasy Sports has been extremely popular in the USA for decades. The introduction of Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) however sparked a fierce debate about the legal nature of those contests. At the heart of the debate is the question, whether success in DFS depends on chance or on the participants’ skill and if DFS is therefore a game of chance or a skill game. … Continue Reading
