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Week 6 Guest Speaker: Mavis Dixon of Ayogo Health Inc.
Mavis Dixon is Manager of Projects and Engagement with Ayogo Health Inc. Ayogo blends game technology, patient-centered health narratives and design thinking to create games for people with chronic health conditions. A certified PM with a background in psychology, social media and marketing strategy, Mavis’s work has impacted the lives of millions of Canadians. […]
News of the Week; October 1, 2014
GAMES 1. California Court Dismisses McRO Patent Claims Against Activision, Others 2. Another Open-Source Developer Claims Hyperkin is Illegally Using Code for Retro Console System 3. Report: Game consoles most widely used video streaming devices in US: Consoles enjoy strong lead over smart TVs, media boxes 4. ESA: One-Third of Americans Play Mobile Games 5. Louisiana Tea Party Candidate Blames […]
McDonald’s and Nominative Fair Use
I had an interesting conversation with David after our Week 5 class about nominative fair use and the movie Super-Size Me. For those of you not familiar with the film: first off, watch it because it’s hilarious. Documentary maker Morgan Spurlock spends one month eating three meals a day, only eating at McDonald’s. I’ll let you […]
Rudy Giuliani to help in video game firm’s legal case against disgraced Panamanian dictator
The former New York mayor’s firm will ask a judge to dismiss a lawsuit, filed by Manuel Noriega, that had accused Activision Blizzard Inc. of using the disgraced dictator’s likeness in their ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops II’ game. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/rudy-giuliani-video-game-firm-legal-case-disgraced-panamanian-dictator-article-1.1948554 Interesting read particularly in the context of Mr.Dartnell’s talk a few weeks ago […]
Vancouver Island-made game challenges players in brutal post-apocalyptic North
Vancouver Island-made game challenges players in brutal post-apocalyptic North http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/the-long-dark-video-game-can-you-survive-canada-post-disaster-1.2776501 Inspired by the previous post and by last week’s guest speaker. In addition to helping us become disciplined investors and lose weight (DDR) , video games can also help us obtain the necessary skills to survive the (perhaps) inevitable zombie apocalypse. “You’re tracking your calories […]
Video-Blog News of the Week; September 24, 2014
What do the Noriega lawsuit and the 38 Studios debacle have in common? It’s not as bad as you think. jon
Day Trader Learned Lessons From Games
“CIS, pronounced sis, means death in classical Japanese. The nickname is a holdover from his gaming days, when he used to crush foes in virtual wrestling rings and online fantasy worlds. ‘Games taught me to think fast and stay calm,’ he said over tea at Tokyo’s Hotel Grand Palace a few days after the SoftBank […]
Week 5 Guest Speaker: David Spratley of Davis & Co.
David Spratley of Davis LLP will be speaking to us on the subject of trademarks in games on October 1 , 2014. I had the great privilege of working with David for a while and it is hard to find a lawyer who is smarter […]
Week 4 – 9/24/14: “Right to CreaTE or Rights to the Creation” & Ian Verchere
Here are the videos and my slides from the fourth class. Unfortunately we had a tech glitch whereby Ian’s slides didn’t make it into the Mediasite lecture capture video. jon
News of the Week; September 24, 2014
GAMES 1. Activision moves to dismiss Manuel Noriega’s “absurd lawsuit” + Why Rudy Giuliani wants Noriega to get his bloody hands off Activision’s Call of Duty profits 2. FTC Begins Cracking Down on COPPA Violators 3. Developers Spar Over ‘Grimoire’ Name 4. Reclaiming ‘Gamer’ and Defending Our Tribe + Sexism, Lies and Video Games: The Culture War Nobody Is Winning + Addressing […]