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Welcome 12th Cohort of Video Game Law @Allard
Looking forward to learning together starting tomorrow. Welcome. It should be an interesting semester as the video game world is wrestling with some important legal and ethical issues. From loot-boxes to antitrust to sexual assaults, the news is not all good and IMHO the signs of self-defeating immaturity are far too prevalent. If there is […]
Julia Reda – The Copyright Directive
I promised to upload Julia Reda’s website on the EU Copyright Directive, so here it is. I’ve also uploaded two videos from her website. If you already forgot, Julia Reda is one of the main opponents of the Copyright Directive. According to Reda the consequences of the Copyright Directive are far-reaching. Furthermore Reda has claimed that the […]
Discussion Outline – November 28th (Group 1)
Hi everyone, Next week we will be talking about the future of video games. We are going to focus on the following topics: The Future of Gaming Technology – VR and AR How Future Gaming Technology Can Affect The Movie Industry A.I. In the Future The Future Implications of BREXIT for Video Games Seems like […]
Discussion Outline – November 21st
Group: Frederikke, Sebastian, Magdelena & Camilla Next week we will be talking about the EU framework regarding video games. We will look at how the EU deals with some current issues: EU consumer rights The new EU directive on copyright The principle of exhaustion Children and games in the light of GDPR As preparation please […]
Discussion Outline – November 14th
Group: Scott Ashbourne, Conor Kennelly Hi Guys, This week we are going to be talking about the mobile gaming industry, with a focus on free-to-play games (“freemium”). We will start with an overview of the mobile game industry, and then discuss the market driving the explosion in “freemium” games. Our focus will then shift […]
Discussion Outline (November 7)
Group: Tom Allchurch, Basti Ashford, Craig Duffy Hey guys, We’ll be discussing gamification – the process of applying the elements of a game to a situation where they have not previously been used. In Part 1, we’ll be looking at what gamification is and why it’s useful, in Part 2 we’ll be looking at gamification […]
Discussion Outline: October 24, 2018
Hello everyone, This week’s discussion hour topic is video game classification systems and censorship. We will be discussing the following: 1. Why Classify and Censor Games – Violence in Video Games 2. Video Game Classification in North America (the ESRB) 3. International Classification of Online Games 4. Video Game Classification in Australia 5. Censorship Around […]
Discussion Outline for 17 October 2018
Hello class! Helen, Will, Jeff and I are presenting on Wednesday. Here are the broad strokes of our presentation: Discussion Outline for 17 October 2018 Group: Helen Leung, William Goh, Aakash Taneja, Jeffrey Wong Discussion Topic: The implications of copyright law on video-game streamers: the DMCA and how it applies to YouTube and Twitch […]
Quick Summary of the SCC Pentalogy
Jon has mentioned the SCC Pentalogy on copyright a few times in class. If anyone would like a quick summary of the five cases, Osgoode has put together a really useful summary of all of them. Cheers, Ryan Vogt
The first video-game? Spacewar! No it wasn’t.
During my first talk last week I mentioned the game “Spacewar!” as the first video-game, said it was invented in the late 1950’s at Stanford. I also said it was multiplayer. Of those facts, I got two right. The game itself was called “Spacewar!” and it was multiplayer (two person). But it wasn’t invented in […]