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Week 3 Guest Speaker: Roch Ripley of Gowlings
Roch Ripley is a great friend and co-author of the 2nd Edition of Video Game. He is a partner in Gowlings’ Vancouver office and is co-chair of their Technology Industry Group. He has been an Adjunct Professor in this course and has always been very supportive of its goals. He will be speaking to you […]
Week 2 – 9/10/14: “If Picasso had painted a round object…” & Brian Dartnell
Here are slides and video from our second class. Thanks to Brian Dartnell for giving us a terrific overview of his life as EA’s lawyer at EA. You may wonder what it is I am (symbolically) looking for in the picture below. Turns out the video of the class is missing – well, not exactly […]
News of the Week; September 10, 2014
GAMES 1. As The Mod Turns: The Latest In The Ongoing Minecraft ‘Bukkit’ Saga 2. Report: Microsoft in Talks to Buy Mojang for $2 Billion 3. Destiny day-one shipments top $500 million 4. Sega Takes Aim at Gearbox in Latest ‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’ Court Filing + Sega Also Has Copyright Complaints Against Hi Score Girl Manga 5. Pro Music Artists/Reps Force […]
Video-Blog; News of the Week September 3, 2014
This week a few reflections on misogyny, gamers and the Anita Sarkeesian debacle. As well as a quick take on Microsoft’s resistance to a domestic warrant for overseas materials. jon
Week 1 – 9/3/14: “Introduction”
Here are the slides and most of the video from our first class. Unfortunately the first 18 seconds of audio has somehow disappeared but that is hardly a deal breaker. Will get the Youtube version up as soon as possible. Just a couple of “back-end” challenges. jon
Week 2 Guest Speaker: Brian Dartnell of EA
We are very lucky to have Brian Dartnell who is Senior Counsel at Electronic Arts as our Guest Speaker. Brian has been with EA for almost 9 years and this will be his third time speaking to the class. Brian will be giving us an overview of the myriad roles counsel plays within a very […]
News of the Week; September 3, 2014
GAMES 1. Game developer group condemns ‘morally reprehensible’ harassment + The End of Gamers + It’s Dangerous to Go Alone: Why Are Gamers So Angry?: The subset of entitled, belligerent gamers convinced that being ‘objectively’ right entitles them to defend their rightness by any means necessary is overwhelmingly male. + Saints Row developer: ‘Sarkeesian is right’ 2. Australian Consumer Watch Dog Group […]
Welcome to the 8th cohort of Video Game Law @Allard Hall
Want to welcome all of you who are coming to the class starting tomorrow. There are few areas that seem to perpetually inhabit the cutting edge of culture and society the way video-games have over the last forty years or so. Every year it seems the course has yielded some substantive surprises in legal understanding. […]
Video-Blog; News of the Week August 27, 2014
Will work out the bugs in sound and colour, but here is a first attempt at a short weekly video blog where focussing on the weeks news. This episode is a take on misogyny in and out of games, and its changing future. Thanks for watching. Please feed back. jon
News of the Week; August 27, 2014
GAMES 1. Capcom suing Koei Tecmo 2. Nintendo files copyright claims to have Super Smash Bros. leaks removed 3. Trolls drive Anita Sarkeesian out of her house to prove misogyny doesn’t exist 4. The Porn Viewing Habits of Console Owners 5. Report: Adult women gamers now double the number of under-18 boys 6. Rockstar: Lohan’s GTA suit is “for publicity purposes” 7. Police […]