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Legal officer examines the potential legal issues that Pokemon GO could encounter

by rawmeatcowboy
23 July 2016
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Coming from a Venturebeat interview with Avvo chief legal officer Josh King...

"If you saw something walking around on their phone, you thought, geez, what an asshole and now everyone is doing it everywhere and it’s become socially acceptable. But I think this is something that you’ll see, where these entities can’t really file a lawsuit — if you’re the Holocaust museum or Disneyland — against Nintendo or Niantic to say you can’t have your service be available on our property.

You’ll probably see a wide range of businesses, including probably restaurants and bars, that will ban playing Pokémon Go,” he said. “And they’ll enforce that by — if someone is doing this and they feel like they’re being disruptive, they’ll kick them out of their establishment.”

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