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Week 4 Guest Speaker Prof. Greg Lastowka
Our video-conference guest speaker this week is professor Greg Lastowka of Rutgers School of Law. Greg is a pioneer in video game law research and scholarship (such things can be said given how relatively new the field is). Greg will be focussing on the topic of User Generated Content and will be discussing his latest […]
News of the Week; Sept. 25, 2013
1. Game Copiers and Mod Chips – AG Sharpston issues Opinion in Case C-355/12 Nintendo v PC Box + More on modchips: Are they legal in the EU? 2. Fox & Friends Co-Host Elisabeth Hasselbeck: We Need National Registry for Video Games 3. GTA V exceeds $1 billion in only 3 days 4. The Pratfall of Penny Arcade […]
Don’t Touch That Code: Silicon Knights v Epic and Intellectual-Property Rights
In Week 2 of the course we discussed what parts of videogames are actually protected by intellectual property. As Mr. Ripley reminded us, one such part is the code itself. This has interesting implications when the code is not owned by the game’s designer. One of the issues in videogame copyright today is […]
Week 3 Guest Speaker Steve Rechtshaffner
This week’s Discussion hour guest is Steve Rechtschaffner who will be mapping out an overview of the video game industry. Steve is very knowledgeable, visionary and always engaging. From Steve’s Linked In profile: “I’ve been a creative business leader, content creator, marketer and Sr. Executive within innovative driven, fast growth companies in the video game, action […]
News of the Week; September 18, 2013
1. 3DRealms Drops Duke Nukem Forever Lawsuit Against Gearbox, Makes a Public Apology 2. Why the University of Washington Wants Its Surgeons to Play Videogames 3. Fox News Offers Two-Part Feature on the Bad Influence of Violent Video Games 4. Fox & Friends Co-Host Elisabeth Hasselbeck: We Need National Registry for Video Games 5. Manifesto: The 21st Century Will Be […]
Talk @ Georgia Tech, 9/19/13
Am very honoured to be speaking at Georgia Tech this coming Thursday September 19, 2013. Details of the talk in Georgia Tech’s announcement below. jon
Week 2 – 9/11/13: “If Picasso had..” & Roch Ripley Part 1
Here is Week 2. Major points (but no marks) for finding Roch. Am certain this was simply an homage to the “Easter Egg” meme that prevails in video games. Thankfully Roch has an awesome voice, so theatre of mind works just fine 😉 Related to this is the fact that in experimenting with the video, […]
Philosophers’ Café | “Digital Media as Surveillance” 9/16/13
As mentioned in class, Dr. Richard Smith & I will be moderating a “Philosophers’ Cafe” for SFU on Monday September 16. 2013 at 7 PM at the Roundhouse Community Arts & recreation Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews.The topic is “Digital Media as Surveillance”, and yes we came up with the topic months before the Snowden revelations. […]
News of the Week; September 11, 2013
1. Microsoft Wins Big in Motorola Patent Case 2. The Penny Arcade Controversy That Will Not Die 3. Copyright Law and Video Games: A Brief History of an Interactive Medium by Prof. Greg Lastowka 4. Touchdown for video game producer over football players false endorsement claim 5. Tattoo Artist Looks to Show Value of Copyright Claim Against […]
Sport, or not a sport…
I admit I bit my tongue during class when Jon brought up the matter of whether or not video games were sports. I would put sports at the top of the list of polarizing subjects, jostling for position with religion and politics; debates over contentious issues in sports are no less heated than those related […]