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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: […]
Jack Thompson is Never Coming Back
For those not in the know, Jack Thompson is a former lawyer and demagogue who argued that video games directly caused violence. He was eventually disbarred for the unethical actions taken during his anti-gaming crusade. Thompson was around at the same time politicians like Joe Lieberman and Hilary Clinton were arguing for restrictions on the […]
SFU Philosopher’s Cafe on “The Future of Privacy” Nov. 3, 2014 at 7 PM
For anyone interested I am moderating a “Philosopher’s Cafe” tonight at 7:00 PM at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver B.C. The topic is “The Future of Privacy” and the topic is described as follows: “In the “post-Snowden” digital […]
Video-Blog News of the Week; October 29, 2014
This week I wander (carefully) into tender territory reflecting on possible common denominators IMHO among the #gamergate, Jian Gohmeshi and TWU Law situations. If anyone is interested, the slides from a talk to my Media Law class at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism regarding the Gohmeshi situation can be found here: http://medialaw.journalism.ubc.ca/2014/10/29/class-9-partial-slides-ghomeshi/ Unfortunately, for […]
Week 10 Guest Speaker: Mia Consalvo
Mia Consalvo is one of the leading video-game academics and researchers in the world. She is the Canada Research Chair in Game Studies & Design at the Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University. Her education includes a BA, Communications from Lyndon State College, Vermont; an MA, Communications […]