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Finally, the Jersey Shore Comeback We’ve All Been Waiting For
Hi Everyone (and especially those of you who, like me, never left their MTV’s Jersey Shore phase), I recently came across a bit of news that I thought you all might find interesting in the context of our recent Video Game Law lectures. Last week, a news article came out titled “Why ViacomCBS could turn […]
A “Classic” Oversight in ESPN’s new NHL TV Coverage
The NHL’s 2021-2022 season kicked off last week, and for the first time in 16 years, a network other than NBC was behind the broadcast. Disney’s ESPN is now the NHL’s lead TV partner in the US, paying a hefty price of $400 million a year to serve that role. Not far behind is Turner […]
Twitch Hacked: IP and Privacy Concerns?
(Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images) An anonymous hacker leaked the entirety of Twitch via a 125 GB torrent link on 4chan at around 12am yesterday. Twitch confirmed the data breach 8 hours later. The leak included (and Twitch is still determining the extent of the leak so this list is not exhaustive): Twitch properties Twitch’s source […]
Presentation: Legal Solutions to Cheating in Video Games
Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing well coming into the final bit of the term here. My presentation [here] is on cheating in video games with a focus on the legal solutions that have been applied to deal with the issues of cheating in the modern gaming industry. In this presentation you will […]
Cyberpunk Solutions to DMCA
Hi everyone! My term paper for video game law is focused on the use of music – both licensed and original – in games, and the copyright regime and DMCA takedown process involved in the sharing and streaming of games online. In researching this, I came across an interesting approach to DMCA strikes taken by […]
Video Game Streaming: The Legal Implications of an Emerging Career
Good Morning Everyone! I hope everyone is having a great week, I know the end of term is upon us and everyone is a little stressed so I hope my presentation can be a quick break from everything. My presentation is based on the concept of streaming video games as a career, and how such […]
Using the Hivemind of Gamers to Advance Science
Revisiting how video games affect the world, I was brought back to the use of video games by scientists to generate data and data analysis. One of my first personal encounters was Project Discovery in EVE Online. Developed and published by CCP Games, EVE Online is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG). CCP Games […]
Presentation: Taxing Game Currency
Hello all! My presentation is on the topic of assessing Canadian income tax on video game currency earnings. By way of background (in case you are baffled as to why anyone would ruin video games by talking about tax,) I am a student in the LLM in Taxation program at Allard. I am also a […]
VR Technology in a Post-Truth World: November 4th Presentation
Hi everyone! This coming Wednesday I will be presenting on the legal implications of the interaction between accelerating ‘virtualization’ and ongoing political trends in digital spaces, both in the context of video games and beyond. To get the class thinking about the immense potential for manipulation of participants in/inhabitants of virtual worlds, I have linked […]
Delisted Games
Hello everyone, Here is our presentation on delisted video games. Audio is attached to each slide (except the title slide), and we’ve provided links to a variety of resources you might find interesting throughout the slideshow. Hopefully the presentation plays without issue for everyone, but if you have any trouble accessing it please let us […]