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Week 1 – 9/4/13: “Introduction”
Thanks to all for a fun first class. Sorry for my scratchy voice. Was not auditioning for a post midnight FM radio gig. Working on getting better. The video and slide links below are: 1.Click-through to full size MediaSite player (video & slides); 2. Embedded MediaSite player (video & slides) but not expandable to full […]
News of the Week; August 28, 2013
1. King Sues 6Waves for Alleged Game Copyright Infringement. Here’s the Complaint. 2. Keller v. EA Delayed for Supreme Court Review Petition 3. RI Judge Greenlights Lawsuit against 38 Studios 4. Supreme Court Justice Kagan Played Video Games to Prepare for Brown v. EMA 5. New Research Suggest Video Games Are Not Triggers For At-Risk Teens 6. Report: Eight-Year-Old Boy Murders […]
News of the Week; August 21, 2013
1. Nintendo Ordered to Pay $15.1 Million in 3DS Lawsuit 2. EA plans to appeal Keller case to Supreme Court 3. ‘League of Legends’ accounts in North America suffer security breach 4. Origin launches free 24-hour return on EA games 5. Microsoft details long-awaited Xbox One self-publishing plans 6. Game-tokens found in 5,000-year-old burial mound 7. Forrester: PRISM’s cost to the world cloud […]
News of the Week; August 14, 2013
1. Nintendo Sues HackYourConsole.com for Selling Copying Devices 2. New Jersey Court Approves Used Game Lawsuit Against GameStop 3. Jim Brown’s right of publicity claim revived by Keller victory on appeal 4. Clone Wars: The Five Most Important Cases Every Game Developer Should Know 5. Rhode Island Lawmakers Examine 38 Studios Loan Debacle 6. Teaching […]
Conan takes on the Atari 2600
Conan takes on the Atari 2600 | Joystiq. Not much here that has a lot to do with the law (perhaps the rumoured landfill of ET games can be seen as an environmental law issue ?). Still, for sheer humour and quite a bit of historical perspective on how far video-games have come, this piece […]
News of the Week; August 7, 2013
1. Ninth Circuit Rules That Celebrity “Rights” Trump Free Speech + Third Circuit rejects EA’s first amendment defense to college athletes’ right of publicity claims + Keller v. EA: visual elements mean game isn’t protected by First Amendment (Prof. Rebecca Tushnet’s 43(B)log) 2. The First Amendment in play: Brown v. EA (Prof. Rebecca Tushnet’s 43(B)log) 3. Activision Blizzard […]
End User License Agreements (EULA’s) are always fun to read
10 Ridiculous EULA clauses that you might have agreed to: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-ridiculous-eula-clauses-agreed/ 5 Most ridiculous EULA clauses: http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/5-Most-Ridiculous-EULA-Clauses/ba-p/657
News of the Week; July 31, 2013
1. Court of Appeals Rejects EA’s First Amendment Claim in NCAA Lawsuit 2. Why gaming’s latest take on war is so offensive to Russians 3. Activision Blizzard goes independent as Kotick leads $8.2 billion buyout + Activision’s Deal Analyzed 4. Zynga loses half of its active users, drops plans for real money gambling 5. Xbox One will allow independent developers to […]
News of the Week; July 24, 2013
1. Tropico 4 Developer Targeted by Treehouse Avatar Technologies 2. Delaware Supreme Court backs Harmonix in Viacom dispute 3. Robin Antonick wins Madden lawsuit 4. Diversity in Video Games – The Rise of Female Gamers (Learnist page) 5. Wargaming, Stardock, and Rebellion Score Big IP from Atari Auction 6. Vivendi in talks to raise $3b dividend from Activision-Blizzard – repor 7. Xbox […]
Coming Soon
The current digital form of the Video Game Law course began with the notion of producing an iTunes U course this summer for fall launch. Here is the opening animation produced by Alana Thorburn-Watt of the Centre for Digital Media, our editor: jon