PUBG vs Free Fire, Apple, and Google: A Legal Battle Royale

By Courtney Seams, 3L, GW Law (Editor’s note: The following article appeared in Esports and the Law, a periodical published by Hackney Publications.) Krafton, the maker of PUBG: Battlegrounds, filed a copyright infringement suit on January 10 against Garena, the maker of Free Fire and Free Fire Max. Krafton alleges that Garena’s game is infringing on numerous copyrightable aspects of PUBG’s gameplay. This is the third high-profile suit that Garena has brought in recent years to pr