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Replacing Fixation: A blog post from Jeremy Costin
Below is a link to a thoughtful blog post by Jeremy Costin (LL.B 2007, UBC) on the challenges the legal concept of fixation poses in the digital age. Jeremy is (needless to say) being a bit too kind in terms of my contribution to his thinking: Replacing Fixation: How the information age is forcing us […]
Greg Lastowka’s Video Game Developers UGC Survey
Prof. Greg Lastowka of the Rutgers University School of Law is doing some important research on User Generated Content and needs the help of video game developers. So if you are a game developer please help. If you know game developers ,please pass on to them Greg’s personal message below: “Hello! My name is Greg […]
“i am a gamer” game-jam July 12-14 @ the CDM
This coming weekend my friend and colleague Dr. Kimberly Voll is unleashing the (first annual) “i am a gamer” Game-Jam on our world. The event is committed to creating games with strong female characters and was prompted by a number of industry comments doubting the viability of woman as lead characters in games. If any […]
Reductio ad absurdem (clown edition)
Not too long ago I was engaging with my academic colleague and professional clown (some of the more witless from my former business lives might ask “is there a difference?”) Patrick Pennefather (http://thecdm.ca/people/faculty/patrick-pennefather). Our topic of choice, as it frequently is, was the inadequacies of intellectual property as a concept, and how those inadequacies are […]
digrastudents.org
Received a mass mailing note from Ashley O’Toole-Brown and Rachel Kowert announcing the launch of the new DiGRA students website (http://digrastudents.org)and asking this be brought to the attention of all students who might be interested in the area. DIGRA is the Digital Games Research Association and is a point of convergence for all of the academic work […]
Gamer Technology Law panel on “The Battle of the Living Room”, October 2012
On October 4, 2012 I was privileged to join a panel on “The Battle of the Living Room: Video Game Consoles as Media Centers” at the Law Seminars International 3rd Annual Seattle Conference on Gamer Technology Law. Given that the panel was nine months before the reveals of Sony & Microsoft’s next generation platforms you may find the […]
2011 Talk to LSUC Symposium on Convergence 3.0
In April 2011, was very honoured to give the keynote at The Law Society of Upper Canada’s Entertainment & Media Law Symposium – “Convergence 3.0: It’s Here and It’s Happening”. The talk on “The Three Faces of Convergence” was an attempt to reconcile digital media legal issues with observations from my broadcast and sports and operational experiences. Thanks to […]
Games as Art & Expression Examined.
In “Games Are Not Coffee Mugs Ep#1” Prof. William K. Ford of John Marshall Law School and an expert panel delve into the history of games and legal decisions which did not and then did recognize the expressive aspects of the medium. For additional context check out Nostalgia Critic’s analysis “Are Video Games Art?” and Paola Antonelli’s […]
Rutgers Player-Authors Survey One
Prof. Greg Lastowka of Rutgers Law School is conducting a survey on user-generated content practices in video games. He would greatly appreciate if you could fill out the survey as well as pass it on to others. You will find the survey here: https://camdenrutgers.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0VzeOA1fJHthpkN Greg will be presenting the results of the survey at DiGRA […]
Human Angle: Cloned at Birth (featuring Jennifer Kelly)
Week 9 guest Jennifer Kelly of Fenwick & West LLP has a legal cameo (@ about the 6 minute mark) in this well done short film dealing with the double edged sword of video game clone wars jon