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Are Let’s Play Videos Illegal? | Game/Show | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube
Are Let’s Play Videos Illegal? | Game/Show | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube. Doesn’t get any more self-explanatory as a subject. No easy answers yet – but would make for a wonderful fair dealing/use test case. jon
Au Revoir Cohort 8 of Video Game Law
“I have learned much from my teachers, more from my peers, but most from my students…” Papers graded, marks in. It’s time to say don’t be a stranger. But more than that it’s time to thank everyone in the eighth cohort of Video Game Law for your focus during class, your contributions between classes to […]
News of the Week; January 7, 2015
GAMES 1. EA Loses Appeal in Madden NFL 09 Lawsuit + Lawsuit Over Use Of Former NFL Players’ Likeness In Madden Moves Forward 2. Video Game Club 2014 – Entry 6: I’m no longer interested in worrying about whether other gamers think I’m sufficiently hardcore. 3. How imageboard culture shaped Gamergate: That tell-tale wedding of relentless hostility and ethical affectation […]
A UBC FIREtalk with Kate Chandler on Open Badges in Academia | Open Badges
A UBC FIREtalk with Kate Chandler on Open Badges in Academia | Open Badges. Why did badges work as effectively as they did this semester in Video Game Law? Especially without any particular marketing or other push. Kate Chandler who is part of our UBC […]
Contractual Issues in Videogame Law and Possible Labour Law (and other) Solutions
I’m posting my final paper here in the spirit of the open access to information modelled by this class. The paper explores the potential application of labour law principles of collective bargaining to solve some of the problems with common contracts used in the videogame industry. Drawing heavily from ideas discussed in class, the paper […]