Presentation Outline – 23 October 2019
Hello all, On Wednesday 23rd October, I’ll be presenting on the application of copyright law to video game livestreams and recorded playthroughs (“Let’s Plays”), which are commonly uploaded on internet platforms such as YouTube and Twitch. I’ll be covering the following points: Overview of Let’s Plays and livestreams on YouTube and Twitch; Applying copyright law […]
Class 6 – 10/16/19; “Gamer Vulnerability in Virtual Realities Part 2” + “Gaming as a Career” + Ian Verchere
Slides and video below. Have once again had to cut the non-essential slides out of my presentation to fit the maximum upload limit of the website. Jon
Settlement between YouTube and ‘DMCA Extortion Scammer’
YouTube recently settled a dispute with a man who abused the platform’s DMCA takedown system. The defendant in the lawsuit had been repeatedly making false copyright infringement claims to harass and extort money from content creators, threatening them with DMCA takedown notices for content that wasn’t his. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (‘DMCA’) is a […]