The Battle (Royale) Continues Between Epic and Apple

Epic runs the wildly successful battle royale game Fortnite across a variety of platforms, including on Apple’s mobile iOS (what a time we live in!). Fortnite on Apple devices was until August last year distributed through the App Store. In exchange, Apple took a 30% commission of all sales through iOS versions of Fortnite. Last year, Epic […]

Legal Reasoning Behind Epic Games, Inc v Apple Inc

For those interested in the legal reasoning of the Federal Court, the primary judge’s decision was overturned due to three errors, each of which would have been sufficient to vitiate the original decision. Error 1: Public policy considerations The primary judge did not make a cumulative assessment of the public policy considerations. The considerations in […]