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Games Are Not Coffee Mugs, Episode 5
Professor William K. Ford of The John Marshall Law School just sent me a link to the latest episode in his excellent video series on games. It is an interview with a past guest in our course, Patrick Sweeney, on the very interesting and somewhat fraught subject of “The Video Game Industry and Hollywood”. Enjoy. […]
Law 423B UBC Open Badges Project Survey
The addition of badges to the Video Game Law website has no doubt been one of the more pleasant surprises of this academic season. It was only in late August 2014 that the possibility of the course being included in the Open Badges UBC Project even emerged. In that context it is perhaps a […]
Week 13 Guest Speaker: Anoop Desai of Electronic Arts
Anoop Desai will be our final guest speaker for this video game law cohort. Anoop is Director, Business Affairs/Development at Electronic Arts (Canada) Inc. and has been with EA since 2007. Previously he was with Next Level Games and practiced law with Alexander, Holburn, Beaudin & Lang from 2001 to […]
Week 12 Guest Speaker: Adrian Crook
Adrian Crook is our guest speaker this week. Adrian is the Managing Director of Adrian Crook & Associates (http://adriancrook.com) and will be speaking about the structures and opportunities of the video game industry. In the words of his firm’s website “Adrian Crook is an award-winning […]
Week 11 Guest Speaker: Jas Purewal
Jas Purewal will be joining us remotely this week to talk about “5 Key Topics in International Video Game Law”. Jas founded Purewal & Partners in May 2014 after a decade of practice at City of London law firms as well as in Europe and […]
SFU Philosopher’s Cafe on “The Future of Privacy” Nov. 3, 2014 at 7 PM
For anyone interested I am moderating a “Philosopher’s Cafe” tonight at 7:00 PM at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver B.C. The topic is “The Future of Privacy” and the topic is described as follows: “In the “post-Snowden” digital […]
Week 10 Guest Speaker: Mia Consalvo
Mia Consalvo is one of the leading video-game academics and researchers in the world. She is the Canada Research Chair in Game Studies & Design at the Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University. Her education includes a BA, Communications from Lyndon State College, Vermont; an MA, Communications […]
Week 9 Guest Speaker: Jennifer Lloyd Kelly
We are particularly privileged this coming week to have as our guest Jennifer Lloyd Kelly. Ms. Kelly is IMHO the leading video game law litigator in the world. She is (for the second time in the history of the course) making the trek from San Francisco where she practices at Fenwick & West LLP. The […]
Week 8 Guest Speaker: Andy Moore
Andy Moore will be joining us as next week to talk about the future of games, the games industry and the role of “indy developers”. Andy is a programmer by trade (but a teacher at heart), and has helped game studios and other digital-media companies as a consultant, contractor, and specialist; focusing in the […]