Fantasy Sports Games: Potential Legal Issues under Swiss Law

This article offers a brief explanation of the underlying technology (DLT) and sheds light on two pertinent legal issues of the emerging NFTs based fantasy football games market from a Swiss Law perspective: copyright and gambling regulations.

Introduction

Online fantasy sports games have been around for quite some time now. By way of example, Electronic Arts released in 1997 its first football manager simulation, FIFA Soccer Manager, which was a predecessor of the very popular FIFA Manager of the noughties.[1] And fantasy sports games continue to enjoy growing popularity around the world. Notably, recent technological developments such as social media and blockchain made it possible not only to further expand the product lines but also to enhance the user’s (fan) experience.

Lately, a number of new operators have emerged, offering fantasy sports games on distributed ledger technologies (DLTs),...

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