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Class 3 – 9/26/18; “John Milton Plays Grand Prix Legends”
Slides and video from class below. Be forewarned that there are still some minor video outages here and there that the tech are trying to figure out. Those are not particularly a big deal where there is video and the slides still remain viewable. That said by far the bigger problem is that the microphone […]
Class 2 – 9/12/18; “If Picasso had painted a round object…” + Ian Verchere
Slides and video are below. There were a few scary moments where we thought the video had disappeared but it was found. Thanks to Tom Dudas for all his hard work on this. There is some missing video, but audio throughout – which is more important. Also for some reason I don’t understand Ian’s slides […]
Class 1 – 9/5/18; “Introduction”
Here is video and the slides from the first class with a few edits to each. Looking forward to learning together. Jon
“Life As A Game: Legal Consequences of A.I. Individuated MEdia” @ More Than Just Game lV, April 5, 2018, London U.K.
This past week I once again had the pleasure of giving a talk at fourth annual “More Than A Game ” conference in the U.K. As seems to always be the case, the ideas for the talk were germinated during this course, especially during our various collective musings about Artificial intelligence in video-games. Thanks are […]
Class 11 – 12/1/17; “Relating Technology, Originality & Identity” + “YouTube ‘Let’s Play’ videos and the Defence of Fair Comment”
Video and PowerPoints from the final class of the year below. We did not follow our usual sequencing, and you will have to turn your speakers way up for the last 2/3’s of the video – but there is sound. Jon
Class 10 – 11/24/17; “Do We Really Need EULA’s?” + “Loot Box Special”
Video & two sets of slides below… Jon
Class 9 – 11/17/17; “News of the Week” + “Highs and Lows of Modern Esports” + “Artificial Intelligence”
Video and Slides below. Sound is not always ideal but a remixed version should be coming our way soon. Jon
Class 8 – 11/10/17; “What’s it all about…EULA?” + “What Can Video Games Teach Us About the Future”
Video and slides below… Jon
Class 7 – 11/3/17; “Cases, Clauses, & Contexts” + “Professional Esports and the Law”
Video & Slides below… Jon
Class 6 – 10/20/17; “Copyright to Contracts: Consumers & Users As Creators & Connectors” + “Realism in Video Games & Digital Branded Integration”
Video and slides below. everything seemed to work this time…. Jon