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Special Issue of UBC Law Review on “Digital Media, Video Games, And The Law” is out..
Vol 46 No 3 (September 2013) – UBC Law Review Society There are now 3 copies on reserve in the library which could be very useful (depending on topic) as you craft papers for the course. jon
Week 8 Guest Speaker – Jennifer Kelly
Our guest this week is one of foremost litigators of video game related cases. Jennifer Kelly is at Fenwick & West in San Francisco. She will be speaking to us about imitation, originality and genres in games.. From Jennifer’s Linked In profile: “I am a partner in the Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation Group at […]
Week 6 Guest Speaker – Roch Ripley (redux)
Now that we have traversed the “Creating” section of the course, have invited Roch Ripley of Gowlings back to provide you with alternate perspectives on the copyright law interpretations I have subjected you to 😉 The idea is to arm you with some different views as you move forward through the inevitable dialectic inherent to […]
Week 3 Guest Speaker Steve Rechtshaffner
This week’s Discussion hour guest is Steve Rechtschaffner who will be mapping out an overview of the video game industry. Steve is very knowledgeable, visionary and always engaging. From Steve’s Linked In profile: “I’ve been a creative business leader, content creator, marketer and Sr. Executive within innovative driven, fast growth companies in the video game, action […]
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. […]
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
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 […]
Virtual currency – Bitcoin
The Bitcoin Implosion: 5 Signs of an Investing Bubble: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/bitcoin-implosion-5-signs-investing-bubble-142629328.html Bitcoin mining costs real world money: http://www.slashgear.com/bitcoin-mining-costs-real-world-money-15277822/
Torment game sets crowd-funding record: $4.2 million
Torment: Tides of Numenera, the sequel to popular Planetscape: Torment, set a record for video games earlier this week, raising nearly $4.2 million on Kickstarter. The sum was more than quadruple the funding goal by developer inXile Entertainment. Of course, this pales in comparison to the more than $8.5 million raised for new “console” system OUYA, another […]