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Week 12 Guest Speaker: Adrian Crook
Adrian Crook is our guest speaker this week. Adrian is the Managing Director of Adrian Crook & Associates (http://adriancrook.com) and will be speaking about the structures and opportunities of the video game industry. In the words of his firm’s website “Adrian Crook is an award-winning […]
Audio of VIFF Panel Discussion on Orphan works
As noted in an earlier post, on October 10, 2014 I had the pleasure of appearing on a panel with Professor Joel Bakan of UBC Law and Professor Colin Browne of SFU as part of the Vancouver International Film Festival to discuss the subject of “orphan works” The connection to VIFF was that the […]
Why we Game: Simulations
While researching for my paper, I ran across the idea that there is a spectrum of gaming. On one side is simulation, which attempts to be as real as possible. On the other side is fantasy, which takes advantage of the medium to allow people to enjoy situations and worlds not confined by social, physical […]
News of the Week; November 12, 2014
GAMES 1. Glu Mobile sues Hothead over “rip off” Kill Shot + Deer Hunter Vs. Killshot: Why Specific Expression Matters More Than Similar Shooter-Genre Staples 2. Blizzard president Mike Morhaime condemns hate and harassment in gaming at BlizzCon keynote + When Gamergate Targets You: Who The Hell Keeps Calling Me? + Actually, it’s about ethics in games journalism (meme collection) 3. Research: […]
Week 10 – 11/5/14: “Mass Effect-s” & Mia Consalvo
Thanks to Mia Consalvo for joining us from Montreal for our look at social issues in games. Video and slides below. Unfortunately our lecture capture system treated Mia’s video as if it was a PowerPoint leaving a bit to be desired technically. On the plus side the sound on the video, which is actually the […]
Second hand sales of Video Games
In today’s guest lecture with Jas Purewal, one of the topics we explored was the legality of second hand sales of video games. It was an interesting topic. On my first impression, it seemed only logical that we should be able to resell video games we have purchased. We can resell cars, bikes, houses, chairs, […]
Project Oculus: Our Virtual Reality Classroom
Our class experiment with Oculus Rift DK2’s went smoothly thanks Jesse Joudray of VRChat LLC. Seven participating students equipped with Oculus Rifts’ took in the class from an entirely different part of the law school, while the rest of […]
Week 11 Guest Speaker: Jas Purewal
Jas Purewal will be joining us remotely this week to talk about “5 Key Topics in International Video Game Law”. Jas founded Purewal & Partners in May 2014 after a decade of practice at City of London law firms as well as in Europe and […]
Video-Blog News of the Week; November 5, 2014
This week a brief exploration of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s petition for DMCA exemptions including one for users who want to play abandoned video games. jon
News of the Week; November 5, 2014
GAMES 1. EFF Files Petitions for DMCA Exemptions on Jailbreaking, Car Software, and Video Game DRM Software Checks on Older Games + OTW Files Petitions on Behalf of Fan Video Makers + Latest EFF DMCA Exemption Requests Include The Right to Tinker With and Maintain Unsupported Video Games + EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” online games: […]