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Introductory Essay – UBC Law Review Special Issue on Digital Media, Video Games, and the Law
Was very privileged to be asked to write an Introductory Essay for the UBC Law Review’s upcoming Special Issue on Digital Media, Video Games, and the Law. With the permission of the Editors you can find it by clicking on the page below: jon
Week 4 Guest Speaker Prof. Greg Lastowka
Our video-conference guest speaker this week is professor Greg Lastowka of Rutgers School of Law. Greg is a pioneer in video game law research and scholarship (such things can be said given how relatively new the field is). Greg will be focussing on the topic of User Generated Content and will be discussing his latest […]
Talk @ Georgia Tech, 9/19/13
Am very honoured to be speaking at Georgia Tech this coming Thursday September 19, 2013. Details of the talk in Georgia Tech’s announcement below. jon
Philosophers’ Café | “Digital Media as Surveillance” 9/16/13
As mentioned in class, Dr. Richard Smith & I will be moderating a “Philosophers’ Cafe” for SFU on Monday September 16. 2013 at 7 PM at the Roundhouse Community Arts & recreation Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews.The topic is “Digital Media as Surveillance”, and yes we came up with the topic months before the Snowden revelations. […]
Penn Law IP Symposium 03.29.13 UGC Panel
In March I was honoured to make a presentation and be on a panel with Mark Methenitis at Penn Law School’s annual IP Symposium The Symposium was Creation Nation: IP and the Rise of Prosumerism. Our panel was on User Generated Content. Our moderator is our guest in the course for October 2, 2013, Prof. […]
Week 2 Guest Speaker Roch Ripley
Roch Ripley is a great friend, co-author of the 2nd Edition of Video Game and as an Adjunct in this course last was very helpful in supporting the creation of the 2.0 version of Video Game Law. He will be speaking to you in the second hour this coming Wednesday (Sept. 11, 2013) and sharing […]
Space Battle
Further to our talk today, here is what the most epic Eve Online battle looked line. Fascinating for us geeks. Perhaps not so much otherwise… The mass scale of simultaneous digital interactivity is impressive. Though no hardcore legal issues manifested out of this battle, if you look carefully at the ethos and history of Eve […]
Conan takes on the Atari 2600
Conan takes on the Atari 2600 | Joystiq. Not much here that has a lot to do with the law (perhaps the rumoured landfill of ET games can be seen as an environmental law issue ?). Still, for sheer humour and quite a bit of historical perspective on how far video-games have come, this piece […]
End User License Agreements (EULA’s) are always fun to read
10 Ridiculous EULA clauses that you might have agreed to: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-ridiculous-eula-clauses-agreed/ 5 Most ridiculous EULA clauses: http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/5-Most-Ridiculous-EULA-Clauses/ba-p/657
Coming Soon
The current digital form of the Video Game Law course began with the notion of producing an iTunes U course this summer for fall launch. Here is the opening animation produced by Alana Thorburn-Watt of the Centre for Digital Media, our editor: jon