Acquisition International - Issue 11 2022 17 The Rise of an Empire: How Critical Role Helped Shape an Industry industry that hasn’t been around long enough to have set standards of good practice in place yet. With contract-driven employment, payment for performers, treatment of cast, and so much more still in constant flux, shaped by the community behind it, even big budget companies such as Critical Role can be hit hard by issues brought on by such ambiguity, such as in a recent debacle that posed the question of how IP protection and copyright law apply to broadcasted tabletop games when a character was claimed to have been ‘stolen’ by the company from a TikTok creator. This issue, among others, isn’t unique to the company or characters in question, but they important conundrums that the whole industry must answer in order to learn, grow, and move forward. Indeed, it is clear from such teething problems that despite the leaps and bounds the entire field has come in terms of payment, copyright, production, and more, there is much more work to do. But with such enthusiastic and inspiring people as those behind Critical Role leading it from the front, bearing the torch for the nerdy little hobby so many grew up loving, such work is ongoing so that today’s professionals can leave the industry ‘better than we found it’. Company: Critical Role LLC Website: https://critrole.com/
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