Neil Yang

Vice President, Intellectual Property NetEase Games

Neil Yang leads global (ex-China) IP strategy and litigation for NetEase Games. His practice spans high-stakes disputes, portfolio management, and product counseling on emerging issues such as generative-AI policies. Before NetEase, Neil spent more than a decade at Activision Blizzard managing all aspects of IP. He began his legal career at the law firm O’Melveny & Myers and, before law, engineered processors at Intel Corp.

Day 1 - Tuesday 28th April, 2026

5:30 PM Presentation – Framing the Future: Navigating IP, AI, and Global Legal Risk in Live Service Games

Neil Yang, Vice President of Intellectual Property at NetEase Games, oversees global IP and litigation outside of China. Drawing on experience across franchises, studios, and platforms, he offers a practitioner’s view of how AI and automation is redrawing the boundaries of creativity, ownership, and compliance in live service games. Neil unpacks what developers and publishers need to consider when future-proofing their creative pipelines such as:

Understanding how regional IP expectations shape product, privacy, and content strategies.
Preparing for long-tail legal implications of automated and AI-generated assets given the legal system is lagging behind innovation.
Avoiding one-size-fits-all assumptions when building globally distributed live service experiences.

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